Aleksander Alexandrovich Deneika - Artist Info

About Aleksander Alexandrovich Deneika

Name variants

Alexandr Deineka, Alexander Deyneka
  • Biography

    Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka, 1899 —1969

    Order of Lenin (1964)
    Academician of the Academy of the USSR (1947)
    People's Artist of the USSR (1963)
    Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)

    Alexander Deineka was a prominent Soviet Russian artist who expressed himself in various visual forms such as paintings, drawings, graphic arts, frescoes, mosaics and sculpture. He is well-known for being one of the most important founders of Social Realism*. Deineka undeniably can be defined as one of the most significant figures amongst Russian modernist figurative artists of the first half of the 20th century. His style was evolving throughout his entire artistic career and often went through quite radical changes and developments especial...

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