Portrait Kalinin or Trotsky 1930-40 gg
 

Melent'ev, A. Portrait Kalinin or Trotsky 1930-40's. Canvas, oil H

Melentiev Herman Aleksandrovich
(1888-1967)

Outstanding Ural painter, teacher.
Student N. And. Fechin, p.p. Benkov - the Kazan art school, A. C. Makovsky Academy of Arts.
"G. A. Melentiev is one of the oldest artists of the Urals, as reflected in their works of his historical past, events of the revolutionary years, the heroics of socialist construction... Many young artists of the Urals owe to it their knowledge, many he helped to find his way in art," wrote about the artist famous art critic B. C. Pavlovsky.
His works are in major public and private collections

Kalinin. .....