Valentin Dmitrievich Tselmer ( 1904 - 1970 ) - Soviet artist and illustrator.
| Tselmer Valentin Dmitrievich | |
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| Date of Birth | February 27, 1904 |
| Place of Birth | Kharkov Russian empire |
| Date of death | March 5, 1970 (aged 66) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
Biography
Born in Kharkov on February 27, 1904 . [1] Valentine's childhood and youth passed in the Urals, in the city of Lysva , and since 1918 - in Perm .
In 1919 he entered the Perm Higher Artistic and Industrial Workshops . In the same year he began to take part in socio-political campaigns: he wrote posters, decorated holiday events. In 1922, the workshops were transformed into an Art College, where the teachers of Tselmer were V. A. Obolensky (a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting) and A. V. Kaplun . After graduating from college in 1924, Tselmer entered the graphic faculty of Moscow VKhUTEMAS , where he studied under N.N. Kupreyanov , L.N. Bruni and V.A. Favorsky .
Since 1927 he began to participate in art exhibitions. In 1930 he graduated from VKhUTEIN . In the 1930s, Valentin Tselmer worked mainly in magazine illustrations ( Pioneer magazine and others), while continuing to engage in easel painting. He worked in the publishing houses " Pravda ", " Young Guard ", " Detizdat ", " Peasant newspaper ". As before, he designed the enterprises for the October and May holidays, participated in the design of Moscow, in the launch of the subway.
During the Great Patriotic War he was in the Navy. As an artist, he performed a number of tasks on the production of front-line literature, worked in the propaganda team of the Main Political Administration of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1944 he was discharged to the reserve. Again he began to work in publishing houses, to participate in exhibitions. He worked on the print - lithography , etching , linocut .
He died on March 5, 1970 in Moscow. [1] Buried at Vvedensky cemetery . [2] His daughter, Olga Valentinovna Tselmer (born 1944), also became an artist; married to S. M. Kharlamov [3] , People's Artist of Russia.
The collections of the Picture Gallery of the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Region, contain 75 works by V.D. Zelmer representing his work of the 1920s - 1960s (ink, pencil, charcoal; watercolors, gouache, etchings, lithographs, linocuts). [four]