Viktor Grigorevich Puzyrkov
b. 1918
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Viktor Grigorevich Puzyrkov b. 1918 |
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| Born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, 1918. Studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College 1936-38, at the Kiev Art Institute 1938-41, at the Moscow Art Institute (transferred to Samarkand) 1942-43. Important shows include "All Union Art Exhibition" Moscow 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955. His most famous painting is "Stalin on the Cruiser Molotov", (1949) at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Not surprisingly, awarded the Stalin prize in 1948 and 1950. Also, nominated "People's Artist of the USSR" in 1979. Spent most of his career in Kiev, where he taught at the Art Institute from 1948 to to the 1990s, becoming Head of Paintings Dept. in 1979. Internationally recognized as a leading Kiev socialist realist, his works from the 1940s and 50s are totally indicative of the period and represent the apex of his technique and skill. |
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