Viktor Ufimtsev. Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster artist, theatre artist. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. National Artist of the USSR (1944). Born in 1899 in the village of Barneivka in the South Urals. Childhood spent in Tobolsk and Omsk. He studied at the Omsk Commercial School (1910-1919). From 1917 studied at the courses of painting and drawing at the Institute of Practical Knowledge. In 1918 he was called up for military service. At first he fought for the White Guards, from 1919 he joined the Red Army. Since... далее

Viktor Ufimtsev. Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster artist, theatre artist. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. National Artist of the USSR (1944). Born in 1899 in the village of Barneivka in the South Urals. Childhood spent in Tobolsk and Omsk. He studied at the Omsk Commercial School (1910-1919). From 1917 studied at the courses of painting and drawing at the Institute of Practical Knowledge. In 1918 he was called up for military service. At first he fought for the White Guards, from 1919 he joined the Red Army. Since 1920 he worked as an artist at the Red Army Club and lecturer at the Red Army Art Studio, was a member of the artists' section of the Rabis Union, participated in trips on the agitation steamer “III International”. He worked as an artist - he painted decorations, posters, portraits and slogans. Fascination with futurism and other latest trends in art, however, does not destroy the realistic basis of his artistic vision. Since 1921 Viktor Ufimtsev participated in various exhibitions, including the futuristic ‘Chervonnaya Troika’. He participated in the 1st All-Siberian exhibition of painting, graphics, sculpture and architecture in Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk (1927), 1st travelling Kazakhstan art exhibition (1928) and others. He held personal exhibitions in Novosibirsk (1921), Samarkand (1924; together with Usto-Mumin), Omsk (1926). The artist actively exhibited in Tashkent. Exhibitions of works by Viktor Ivanovich Ufimtsev were held in Moscow (2007, 2009), Omsk (2009). Since 1933 he lived permanently in Tashkent. He worked as the chief artist of the Khamza theatre (1933-1936). He took an active part in the creation of the Artists Union of Uzbekistan; from 1933 - member of the organising committee, from 1940 - chairman of the board of the Artists Union of Uzbekistan. He was engaged in organising exhibitions, creative brigades with trips to the construction sites of the five-year plan. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he travelled to Afghanistan, India and Tunisia. They resulted in a series of gouaches ‘Afghan Diary’, ‘On the Roads of India’, ‘Tunisia’. He showed himself in various fields of art; he was engaged in painting, easel graphics, collage, designed samizdatov poetry collections (‘Futurists - Collection1’, 1921; ‘Autographs’, 1920-1923), kept ‘graphic diaries’ (‘A Piece of Life’, 1920s). He was engaged in propaganda and mass art, in particular political posters: ‘The Way of the Second Five-Year Plan’ (1932), ‘Get involved in the people's construction of the railway’ (1930s). He painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, in the 1930s - works on historical-revolutionary themes and themes of Soviet life. Ufimtsev's paintings, graphics, sketches of theatre costumes and posters are kept in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M. A. Vrubel, the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, the Karakalpak State Museum of Arts named after I. V. Savitsky in Nukus, the art gallery in the city of Angren named after him. скрыть