Soviet artist Yuri Pimenov
(1903 – 1977) was a stage designer, graphic artist, teacher, professor.
Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1962), Corresponding Member
(1954), People’s Artist of the USSR (1970), the winner of the Lenin Prize
(1967) and two Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947, 1950). Yuri Pimenov was
born in Moscow in a family of lawyers. He studied at the 10th Moscow gymnasium.
In 1920-1925 he studied at Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops (VHUTEMAS),
painting and graphic arts department. From 1923 he worked in magazines. After
graduation in 1925, he became one of the founders of the Easel Artists Society.
In the early period Pimenov
experienced a great influence of German expressionism, which largely explains
the hysterically-dramatic poignancy of his best paintings of these years:
“Invalids of War” (1926, Russian Museum), “Give us the heavy industry” (1927);
“The soldiers are moving to the side of the revolution” (1932, both – in the
Tretyakov Gallery). Over the years, he moved to the updated impressionism,
confessing creative principle “beautiful moments”, light and artistic
image-impressions. He worked in the theater and decorative art. Yuri Pimenov –
Master of film posters, which used elements of easel painting. In 1954 he was
elected a corresponding member in 1962 – a full member of the USSR Academy of
Arts.
In 1966 Yuri Pimenov signed
a letter, among other 25 figures of culture and science to the General
Secretary of the CPSU of Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev against the
rehabilitation of Stalin.
Yuri Pimenov died on
September 6, 1977. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.
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