Reuter, Mikhail Grigorievich

He studied at the faculty of the Kiev Art Institute, in 1937 he entered the Central Studio of Fine Arts of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, where Konstantin Yuon , Nikolai Romadin and Aminadav Kanevsky were among his teachers. The student’s abilities were noticed, on the recommendation of I. Grabar , director of the Moscow Art Institute, in 1939 Mikhail Royter was enrolled in the 3rd year of the graphic department of the Moscow Art Institute . Graduation work - illustrations for the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky " Humiliated and Offended " - in 1946, the education of the artist was completed. In the same year he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR , and in 1947 he became a participant in the exhibition at the I World Festival of Democratic Youth and Students in Prague and was awarded an honorary diploma for the illustrations presented.

The first order of M. Reuter was illustrations for the novel by F. Dostoevsky " Teenager ". And in the future, the creative life of Reuter was associated with the works of Dostoevsky: he also illustrated such works of the writer as Netochka Nezvanova , Krotkaya , The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons . Many drawings and watercolors of the artist are associated with the life of the writer and the heroes of his works.

Since the late 1950s, he traveled around the country as a special correspondent for the newspapers Pravda , Komsomolskaya Pravda , Literaturnaya Gazeta , and the magazines Ogonyok and Yunost . The history of trips was reflected in a series of his works: about Bratsk and the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station, the industrial Urals, oil fields in Baku, AZLK in Moscow. He worked in the Far East and Kamchatka, in the Pamirs, in Murmansk, in Ukraine.

One of the favorite topics of modern life for M. Reuter was sports. He participated in all specialized All-Union exhibitions dedicated to sports. Many of his genre works of the 1950s and 1960s are devoted to athletes and Soviet youth in general.

Reuter tried himself in various graphic techniques. He painted with a pen, worked in the technique of monotype, linocut and lithography, achieving particular success in etching . Since the late 1970s, M. Reuter has concentrated on the watercolor technique, perpetuating the changing faces of Moscow, Leningrad, and a number of provincial cities. He painted extensive impressionistic city landscapes, depicting the disappearing Moscow and the new image of the city.

He was buried in the Khovansky cemetery ^[1] .

Brother L.G.-L. Reuter (1910-1994) - Soviet graphic artist. Son Zaporozhets, Oleg Mikhailovich (1950)

• 1961 Personal exhibition catalog
• 1963 Sport in art (6 illustrations)
• 1968 Personal exhibition catalog
• 1977 Personal exhibition catalog Moscow artist, October 5 (ill.)
• 1988 Personal exhibition catalog
• 2006 Personal exhibition catalog
• 2007 Catalog of the personal exhibition Chambers Gallery, London

• 1947 Exhibition of young Soviet artists at the I World Festival of Democratic Youth and Students. Prague
• 1948 Exhibition of graduate works by graduates of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov of the USSR Academy of Arts Moscow
• 1949 Third Exhibition of Books and Graphics
• 1952 Third exhibition of book artists. Moscow
• 1954 Exhibition of young Moscow artists. Moscow
• 1955 Exhibition of works by artists of the RSFSR. Moscow
• "50 years of the first Russian revolution." Moscow
• 1956 "Painting and graphics of Moscow artists"
• 1957 All-Union Exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution "Socialist Moscow"
• The first exhibition of prints by Moscow artists
• 1958 All-Union Exhibition "40 years of the Komsomol." Moscow
• "40 years of the Soviet Armed Forces." Moscow
• "Moscow print today." Moscow
• 1959 "Nine exhibitions in Moscow", Moscow
• 1960 Exhibition of works by Moscow artists
• 1961 Exhibition of works by marine painters of the RSFSR. Kaliningrad
• Personal exhibition, Moscow
• 1963 Sports in the visual arts. Moscow
• Exhibition dedicated to the Navy
• 1964 "Moscow is the capital of our country." Moscow
• "Moscow Socialist"
• 1965 I All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Moscow
• 1966 Personal exhibition. Moscow
• Autumn exhibition of Moscow artists
• 1967 "Artists of Moscow - the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution." Moscow
• 1968 All-Union Exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol.
• 1969 II All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Moscow
• Personal exhibition. Moscow
• 1970 Exhibition of Moscow artists, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. Moscow
• 1971 All-Union Exhibition "Culture and Sports in the Visual Arts". Moscow
• Personal exhibition of works dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of F. M. Dostoevsky
• 1972 III All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors
• 1973 All-Union Exhibition "On Guard of the Homeland." Moscow
• All-Union Exhibition "50 Years of Civil Aviation of the USSR". Moscow
• "Artists of the RSFSR to the 70th anniversary of the II Congress of the RSDLP."
• 1974 I All-Russian print exhibition. Ufa, Leningrad
• 1975 IV All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Minsk, Oryol
• All-Union Exhibition “30 years of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. 1945-1975 ".
• V republican exhibition "Soviet Russia".
• Group exhibition dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. Moscow
• 1976 All-Union Exhibition "Glory to Labor". Moscow
• Moscow Artists - XXV Congress of the CPSU
• 1977 All-Union Exhibition "On the Leninist Way" dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Moscow
• Republican exhibition of works by artists of the RSFSR "60 years of the Great October Revolution". Moscow
• Exhibition of works of art nominated for the State Prize of the USSR. Moscow
• 1978 All-Union Exhibition "60 Heroic Years" (To the 60th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR)
• V All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Moscow
• II All-Russian Exhibition "Drawing and Watercolor"
• 1979 Exhibition of prints by Moscow and Beijing artists "Moscow - Beijing." Moscow
• Exhibition of works by artists - members of the board and asset of the Central House of Arts. Moscow
• 1980 All-Union Exhibition "Sport - Ambassador of the World." Moscow
• Zonal exhibition of works by Moscow artists, dedicated to the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. Moscow
• 1981 VI All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Moscow
• 1982 "Sports in the visual arts." Moscow
• 1983 III All-Russian exhibition "Drawing and watercolor"
• Sports in the visual arts. Moscow
• Personal exhibition “F. M. Dostoevsky in watercolors and illustrations by M. Reuter. " Novgorod
• 1984 II All-Union Exhibition of Drawing
• Seventh All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors. Moscow
• 1985 Seventh All-Union Exhibition "Soviet Russia"
• "Exhibition of Moscow artists", Moscow
• 1986 "Easel graphics of Moscow artists"
• "25 years of the military chef commission of the Moscow Union of Artists of the RSFSR"
• 1987 Eighth All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors, Moscow
• 1st All-Union Exhibition of Easel Graphics, Moscow
• 1988 Personal exhibition. Moscow
• 1990 Second All-Russian Exhibition of Easel Graphics
• 1991 "Figure-91" - All-Union Exhibition of Drawing, Moscow
• 2004 Club of sports journalists, Moscow
• 2006 Personal exhibition. Moscow
• 2007 Chambers Gallery, London
• 2008 Personal exhibition. Moscow

• Moscow encyclopedia. Volume 1: Faces of Moscow. Book 6: AZ. Additions. M .: Moscow Textbooks OJSC, 2014

• Reuter M.G. (unspecified) . Last Century: 20th Century Art Gallery. Date of treatment April 20, 2012. Archived May 15, 2012.
• Reuter Mikhail Grigorievich (neopr.) . "Buy a Picture." Date of treatment April 20, 2012. Archived May 15, 2012.
• Mikhail Rojter (1916-1993) (unopened) (unavailable link) . Gamborg Gallery. - gallery of works. Date of treatment April 20, 2012. Archived April 17, 2013.