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Sergei Grigoriev was born in Lugansk, Ukraine in 1910. He studied at the Zaporozhe Arts and Crafts S...
Sergey Alekseevich Grigoriev
Biography
Sergei Grigoriev was born in Lugansk, Ukraine in 1910. He studied at the Zaporozhe Arts and Crafts School from 1923-26, then at Moscow VKHUTEMAS 1926-27: Kiev Art Institute 1928-32. He was active in Kharkov, Ukraine, 1932-34 before moving on to Kiev, Ukraine, thereafter. Began exhibiting 1932? Important shows include Twenty Years of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, Moscow, 1938; Industry of Socialsm, Moscow, 1939; All Union Art Exhibition, Moscow, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1955.
He was known as a leading painter of everyday-life genre subjects late 1940s-early 1950s. Well known works include Admission into the Komsomol (1949; Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art); The Goalkeeper (1949; Tretyakov Gallery); Discussion of the Low Mark (1950; Tretyakov Gallery); Hes come back (1954; Tretyakov Gallery). He taught at the Kharkov Art Institute 1933-34; at the Kiev Art Institute from 1934; head of creative studios of USSR Academy of Arts, Kiev, from 1962. Became a Soviet academician 1953/54? Awarded Stalin Prizes 1950, 1951; awarded the title Peoples Artist of the USSR 1974. Also a graphic artist. Died 1980s.