Vladimir Serov (painter)

Vladimir Serov
Vladimir Serov, 1948
Born	(1910-07-21)21 July 1910 Emmaus village, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	19 January 1968(1968-01-19) (aged 57) Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet
Alma mater	Leningrad Repin Institute
Movement	Socialist realism
Awards

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Серо́в; 21 July 1910 – 19 January 1968) was a Soviet painter, illustrator and teacher.

Biography

Serov was born to a family of rural teachers. He studied at the Leningrad Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (now Repin Institute), graduating in 1931 and subsequently studying under Isaak Brodsky until 1933. Then he worked as a teacher at the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts. During the Second World War, Serov stayed in the besieged Leningrad and, as president of the Leningrad Union of Artists, took part in the work of the artist group Boyevoi Karandash (Fighting Pencil).

From 1951, he was a member of the Soviet Academy of Arts and was elected as its president in 1962. In 1960, he was First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and served in that position until his death.

Serov was also active as a politician. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1942 and was a member of its Central Auditing Commission from 1961. He was also a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR from 1958.

He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Works

Servov's paintings depicted historical-revolutionary themes, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. In the artist's paintings, dedicated to the events of the October Revolution and the first years of Soviet power, historical events are interpreted in the spirit of official Soviet historiography of the 1940s and 1960s.

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