Ivan Lavsky

Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ла́вский; Ukrainian: Іва́н Іва́нович Ла́вський August 23, 1919, city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Soviet Republic – October 10, 1977, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, born in Ukraine who after World War II lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists[1] and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.[2]

Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky
BornAugust 23, 1919
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
DiedOctober 10, 1977
Leningrad, USSR
EducationDnipropetrovsk Art School
Known forPainting, graphics
MovementRealism

Biography

Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky was born August 15, 1919, in the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Ukraine Republic.

In 1939 Ivan Lavsky graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Art School, where he studied under Mikhail Panin.

In 1941–1945, Ivan Lavsky took part in the Great Patriotic War, which led the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies. As a machine gunner, he participated in the battles, was wounded and marked by military awards.

In 1946–1949 Ivan Lavsky attends Art Studio of the Leningrad House of Officers of Red Army, where his teachers were known artists Michail Avilov and Alfred Eberling.

Since 1947 Ivan Lavsky has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted landscapes, genre scenes, cityscapes, sketches from the life.

Since 1956, Ivan Lavsky was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1950–1970 years he made a creative journey in Old Ladoga, Goryachy Klyuch, Gurzuf, Monchegorsk, in Central Asia.

Most vividly picturesque talent of Ivan Lavsky opened in the genre of nature studies of small forms. In these works, made artistically, widely and easily, consistently surprising skill with which the artist with the challenge of painting – the transfer of the mood of the landscape and the main relations that determine its color.

Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky died on October 10, 1977 in Leningrad. His paintings reside in museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, France, England, the U.S., Italy, and others.

See also

References
  1. Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. – p.606.
  2. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.18, 24, 29, 31, 318, 363, 390, 392–399, 404, 405, 414, 416–419, 422.

Sources
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