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Drozdov Petrovskii (1880-1939)
Portrait of Girls
1923
Paper on cardboard, coal, oil
Size: 52x39

Conclusion State-by Silaeva.



painter, graphic artist, arts and crafts

Original art education in the 1890's icon-painting studio in Moscow malls and art school AP Bolshakov in Moscow. In 1900-1904 he studied at the Penza Art School. ND Seliverstov have Savitsky, then in 1904-1910 - Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at IAH by Vladimir Makovsky, Ilya Repin, VE Savinskoye. In 1910, for the painting "Resellers" and "Repentance" was the title the artist, as well as the right to a pensioner's trip abroad for two years.

In 1911-1912 - IAH retiree in Italy, France and Germany also visited Switzerland and Bulgaria.

He lived in St. Petersburg (Petrograd - Leningrad). He painted portraits, landscapes, genre scenes. After 1917, creating paintings on themes of revolutionary history and the Soviet way of life. Since 1918 - Member of Union of Artists.

Member and exhibitor TPHV (1908-1918, with interruptions), the Association of Artists (1916, 1922), the Society of Artists to them. AIKuindzhi (1917-1927, with interruptions), AHRR - AChRs (1923-1929, in 1924-1926 - Chairman of the Leningrad branch). Also participated in the first free public exhibition of works of art (1919), exhibition of artists of all areas of the Petrograd (1923), the exhibition "Modern Leningrad artistic groups" (1928-1929) in St. Petersburg - Leningrad, World's Fair in New York (1939) and others. Held a solo exhibition in Leningrad (1935). Since 1932 - Member of the Union of Artists.

In 1940 in Leningrad, took a posthumous exhibition of the artist.

The works are in several museum collections, among them State Russian Museum and Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts and others.