Alexei Pakhomov. Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, teacher. National Artist of the USSR (1971). Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1973 - posthumously) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). Born in 1900 in the village of Varlamovo (now in the Kharovsky district of the Vologda region). From an early age he showed an aptitude for drawing. With the active assistance of representatives of the local nobility (Zubovs' son and father) he was sent to the Primary School in Kadnikov, and in 1915 - to... далее

Alexei Pakhomov. Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, teacher. National Artist of the USSR (1971). Winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1973 - posthumously) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). Born in 1900 in the village of Varlamovo (now in the Kharovsky district of the Vologda region). From an early age he showed an aptitude for drawing. With the active assistance of representatives of the local nobility (Zubovs' son and father) he was sent to the Primary School in Kadnikov, and in 1915 - to Petrograd, to the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander Ludvigovich Stieglitz (now the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A. L. Stieglitz). At the school he joined the workshop of Nikolai Andreevich Tyrsa, and after serving in the army he moved to the workshop of Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev. He worked as an art teacher at the Kadnikov school (1918). In 1920-1925 he studied at VKhUTEMAS in Petrograd. His teachers were Alexander Ivanovich Savinov, Sergei Vasilyevich Chekhonin and Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev. In the late 1920s he began working in book graphics, with his teacher Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev, who became the art editor of the publishing house ‘Children's Literature’ and attracted a number of talented young painters. As a result, the book ‘Schoolmates’ by Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak with illustrations by A. Pakhomov was published. The artist survived the war in besieged Leningrad, the author of a dramatic series of lithographs ‘Leningrad in the days of the siege’ (1942-1944). From 1942 he taught at the Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (from 1949 - professor). Headed a personal workshop of easel graphics. Alexei Pakhomov died on 14 April 1973 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). скрыть