Ivan Bruni was born in the poet's daughter Nina K. Balmont Konstantinovny and artist Lev Alexandrovich Bruni. In Miass family Balmont hit in 1916.
As a child, Ivan wanted to become a poet, he translated poetry from prose, and that both had turned out bad, but fate decreed otherwise, and he became an artist.
He fought in the Great Patriotic War, then entered the Riga Academy of Arts. Then he continued his studies in Moscow, but to get a complete education failed. In 1948 his father died, had to work hard to help the family. Bruni starts working in publishing, illustrated books, travels a lot. Traveling around the country offer new experiences, new products. The main themes the artist's work - the war, man, nature. Main content of art - his emotional attitude to life. The favorite techniques - pencil drawing, watercolor, etching, autolithography.
The Great Patriotic War became part of the fate of Ivan Bruni, one of the main themes of his work. Probably not a coincidence that one of the first works in book illustration was the story of E. Kazakevich "Star", to which he repeatedly returned in the future. Illustrates it "Volokalamskoe highway" A. Beck, "Basil Terkina" and "Road House" Tvardovsky. Military theme constantly heard in the easel works Bruni: "The seven sleepers", "Fight in the forest", "Waiting for the car", "Harmony", "Death of a comrade", etc.
In 1981, IL Bruni was awarded the title People's Artist of the RSFSR. Ivan Bruni spent quite a long life, he lived fully, richly, took his place in art. His artistic taste, formed under the influence of family and the environment, allowed to develop his own style in art, and the theme of his work has defined the time in which he lived. He died in 1994. (Based on materials from the collections of local lore museum Miassa)
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