Vitman Irina Ivanovna - Soviet and Russian artist, master of plein air painting, member of the USSR Union of Artists (1948). Master of plein air painting. She spent her childhood and youth in Paris, studied in the studio of sculptor D. Tsaplin, socialised with Y. Annenkov and Z. Serebryakova. In the early 1930s, at the preparatory courses of the Polygraphic Technical School in Leningrad, she met her future husband, the artist Alexei Sokolov. In 1936 Isaac Brodsky, rector of the All-Russian Academy of Arts, after viewing the works of Irina... далее

Vitman Irina Ivanovna - Soviet and Russian artist, master of plein air painting, member of the USSR Union of Artists (1948). Master of plein air painting. She spent her childhood and youth in Paris, studied in the studio of sculptor D. Tsaplin, socialised with Y. Annenkov and Z. Serebryakova. In the early 1930s, at the preparatory courses of the Polygraphic Technical School in Leningrad, she met her future husband, the artist Alexei Sokolov. In 1936 Isaac Brodsky, rector of the All-Russian Academy of Arts, after viewing the works of Irina and Alexei, accepted both of them to study. In 1941, Alexei volunteered for the front, while Irina stayed in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The students served as firemen, dropping incendiary bombs from the roof after enemy bombings. For this work, Vitman was awarded the title ‘Hero of the Fire Service’. She was awarded the medal ‘For the Defence of Leningrad’. In 1942 Irina Vitman was evacuated with the Institute to Samarkand, where, after cold and hungry Leningrad, she enthusiastically pictured the bright beauty of Uzbekistan: old Samarkand, its poetic villages with eternal chinaras, donkeys and camels, fabulous teahouses, plastic clothes of Uzbeks honed by rituals. In 1944 Irina Vitman returned to Moscow, transferred to the Surikov Institute and graduated from it in the workshop of Alexander Osmirkin. She is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. In 1954-1956 Vitman worked in the Tselinnye lands. It was a bright significant period, marked in the artist's work by the birth of new images. Subsequently, during her travels in Mordovia (1958), Kazakhstan, Vietnam (1969-1970), all her works were marked by a sharpened decorative sense of colour, great colouristic tension, constant and persistent search for an image. Participant of many annual Moscow, republican and all-Union exhibitions. Personal exhibitions were held in Moscow and other cities of Russia, as well as abroad. Awarded a gold medal from the Russian Academy of Arts (2010). Robert Falk remarked in his time: ‘her work is laden with a light French charm’. Her works are kept in museums, galleries, private collections in Russia, CIS countries, USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries. скрыть