Yuri Ivanovich (Georgy) Pimenov - Artist Info

About Yuri Ivanovich (Georgy) Pimenov

Name variants

Jurij Iwanowitsch Pimenoff, Georgiy Ivanovich Pimenov, Jurij Ivanovic Pimenov, Youri Ivanovich Pimenov, Yury Ivanovich Pimenov
  • Biography

    Yuri Pimenov was a painter, graphic and theatre set-design artist. His painting subjects were portraits, figure, landscape, genre, still life and Soviet propaganda. From 1920-1925, he studied in the Printing Faculty of the All-Russia Art and Technology Workshops in the classes of S.V. Malyutin and V.A. Favorsky.

    He was a founding member of the Society of Easel Painters (1925). When the Society disbanded, he joined the Izobrigada group. Between 1945-1972, he taught painting in the art faculty at the All Union Cinematography Institute.

    A people's artist of the USSR, he was a Full Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, and Laureate of the Lenin and State Awards of the USSR. In the 1920s, Pimenov participated in the Society ...

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