Nikolai Evgenievich Muratov (1908-1992) - Russian Soviet graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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| Place of Birth | village Shadaron, Transbaikal region | |
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| Genre | graphics, caricature | |
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Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists (until 1992 - the Leningrad Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR), one of the organizers of the creative association “ Battle Pencil ”.
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Biography
Born December 4, 1908 in the village of Shadaron, Transbaikal Region.
He graduated from the Leningrad Art and Industrial College.
Since the 1930s, he became known as a cartoonist who actively collaborated with newspapers and magazines Rezets, Young Proletarians, Chizh, Pushka, Hippopotamus, Smena, Literary Leningrad, Lenin Sparks ".
The artist designed children's books, his work was highly appreciated by the artists of the children's book of the Leningrad school, such as N. Tyrsa, V. Lebedev, V. Kurdov, E. Charushin. In newspaper and magazine graphics, Muratov continued the traditions of his senior contemporaries - Russian satirists N. Radlov, B. Malakhovsky, B. Antonovsky.
In 1939, the artist became the founder and one of the authors of the new creative association of Leningrad artists “Battle Pencil”.
From the first days of World War II, he became an air defense soldier, regularly served on the roof of the LOSH exhibition hall, and put out incendiary bombs. At the same time, he worked on the creation of political posters - by the end of 1941, five out of about twenty drawn postcards were published.
The GMMOBL collection contains a series of sketches of posters, united by a common theme - cartoons of fascists, as well as a series of drawings "Captured Germans", which included full-scale, somewhat cartoonized sketches of prisoners.
Nikolai Evgenievich died in 1992 in St. Petersburg.
Literature
- Album Nikolay Evgenievich Muratov. Easel graphics. Poster. Book and magazine illustration. Sculpture". - SPb., 2008