Nikita Nikanorovich Chebakov (1916-1968) - Soviet painter. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree ( 1951 ).
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| Birth name | Nikita Nikanorovich Chebakov | ||||
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| Place of Birth | Zhenny Rakity village ( Rakity village ) | ||||
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| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire of the  the USSR | ||||
| Genre | artist , painter , graphic artist | ||||
| Study | VGIK | ||||
| Style | socialist realism | ||||
| Patrons | MCCX | ||||
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Biography
Born in 1916 in a poor family in the village of Zhennye Rakity, Znamensky district . He received his special art education at the Omsk Art and Industrial College named after M. A. Vrubel (1932-1936) and at the VGIK (1939-1948). He studied under professors Yu. I. Pimenov and F. S. Bogorodsky . He defended his diploma in the profession “film artist”.
While studying at the institute, he participates in the development of compositional solutions for the first series of the film "Ivan the Terrible" , which was shot by the outstanding director S. M. Eisenstein .
In 1941, at the 3rd year, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army in connection with the Great Patriotic War . He served in the newspaper "Soviet Pilot" of the 5th Air Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front with the rank of ml. lieutenant. The war ends with a victory in Vienna.
In 1948, he worked with Bondarchuk on the film "The Young Guard ", with which he studied on the same course. For this film, he performed a series of sketches. At the same time joins the Moscow Artists Union. Then he spoke out against the party nomenclature, for which he was suspended from work on the film " Young Guard ", although it was his thesis. Only in 1951 in connection with irrefutable merits to the Motherland was restored to the party lists of the CPSU (B.) .
After graduation, N. N. Chebakov traveled around the country a lot in search of artistic images of his contemporaries - working people: workers, fishermen, teachers, doctors. Actively participates in all-Union exhibitions.
Chebakov was widely known for his paintings “Lenin's Speech at the Third Congress of the Komsomol” (which he writes under the direction of B. V. Johanson ) and “Pavlik Morozov” (1952).
The works are stored in the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery [1] .
The artist’s works are also in museums in Novosibirsk , Rostov-on-Don , Arkhangelsk , Kostroma , Tver , as well as in private collections.
In 1962, he teaches at the Department of Painting at the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikova in the rank of assistant professor.
He died of a heart attack in 1968 in Moscow in the Artists Town on Verkhnyaya Maslovka [2] .
Awards and Prizes
- Medal "For the capture of Budapest"
- Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Order of the Red Star
- Stalin Prize (1951) - for the painting "Speech by V. I. Lenin at the Third Congress of the Komsomol" (1950, with co-authors)