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This morning at a hospital in Proven died Vitaly Statsinsky. He was 82 years old.

Received the text of the obituary and some photos:

November 1, 2010 in the Paris suburbs Provins in 1983, died Vitaly Kazimirovich Statsinsky.

 

Book artist, graphic artist, painter, Vitaly Kazimirovich Statsinsky was born in 1928 in the town of Kyzyl-Orda (Kazakhstan). His father belonged to the Party of the Soviet nomenclature and was repressed during the Great Terror.

In 1953, V. Statsinsky graduated with honors from the Art Department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. C in 1962 he was a member of the Union of Artists.

In the years 1956-1964 Statsinsky charge of popular magazines in the USSR for children "Fun". He is one of the founders and chief editor of an illustrated, the music magazine "Gingerbread Man", where they found the work of many talented artists were rejected at the time of official culture.

In those years, much of it depended on the distribution of orders to illustrate children's books in the Soviet publishing houses, thanks to what could lead good life and do their own creativity so-called informal artists, some of which were later made a successful career in the West. Unfortunately, becoming a popular Western art institutions, these people no longer maintain a relationship with W. Statsinskim. He was very upset by this fact.

In 1978, V. Statsinsky emigrated to France. Here he led until the last day of hard life immigrant, while working as an illustrator and designer of books for various publishers of France, the United States and Russia. Simultaneously, he created works of painting, drawing, collage, object, from time to time exposed.

In the field of graphics, V. Statsinsky using the traditions of folk figure, the methods of the Russian Futurists, has created his own original graphic language.

His lithographs, etchings, drawings are in museums and major collections in Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Britain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, France, the United States. Russia.