Aleksandr Nikolaevich Zelensky ( 1882 - 1942 ) - Soviet painter , poster artist , representative of the Leningrad poster school, one of the founders of the Soviet advertising poster. The father of poster artist Boris Zelensky .
| Zelensky Alexander Nikolaevich | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | September 26 ( October 7 ) 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Astrakhan , Russian empire |
| Date of death | 1942 |
| Place of death | Yoshkar-Ola , Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR |
| Allegiance |  Russian empire |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
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Biography
Born on September 26 ( October 7, new style) in 1882 in Astrakhan [1] [2] . In the years 1901-1904 he studied at the Imperial Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art in Moscow. It is not known when Zelensky arrived in Petersburg , where he worked in the 1910s, performing advertising posters of tobacco products before the October Revolution . Also had a hand in advertising Singer sewing machines.
During the Civil War, he created a number of political (non-advertising) posters: “We're going to blow the world fire on all the bourgeois!” (1918), “Comrades! To arms for Soviet power. Long live communism! ”(1918),“ Long live the struggle of the working peasantry and the workers against the yoke of capital. Long live socialism ”(1918),“ Comrades sailors! Forward for the great achievements of the October Revolution! ”(1918),“ In order to have more, you need to produce more. In order to produce more, you need to know more ”(1920),“ We removed the stars from the sky, painted them red and fastened on the caps of the Red Army men, the way the Red Army was so bright and great ”(1920).
In 1922, Zelensky was appointed chief artist of the Petrograd Tobacco Trust. He owns posters advertising cigarettes "Guns", "Safo", "Peak", "Medoc", "Council" of the Leningrad Tobacco Trust, "Salve" of the Ukrainian Tobacco Trust, Rostov cigarettes "Our Brand". The style of these posters is now recognized as a kind of avant-garde - constructivism . Two such posters were presented at the exhibition “Poster of Russian constructivism of the 1920s - 1930s”, held in the summer of 2010 in France.
In the mid-1920s, he created several film posters for films produced by Leningrad film studios: January 9, Minaret of Death, Napoleon Gas (all 1925), Northern Lights, Rivals, Overcoat (all 1926). ).
In 1929, Alexander Zelensky moved to Moscow, where he created several posters of Mosselprom . Gradually, the artist began to deviate from the traditions of constructivism, as this trend began to be persecuted in the USSR . Further, his work followed the path of socialist realism .
One of the last works of Zelensky was a 1940 poster dedicated to the dish of Relish .
He died in 1942, while being evacuated in Yoshkar-Ola . His son Boris , in the 1930s, also became a poster artist, was evacuated in another city - Orenburg . In the 1940-1950s. the son of Alexander Zelensky, Boris Zelensky, became one of the leading Soviet film screeners and received recognition abroad at international exhibitions.
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| “We will blow the world fire on the mountain to all bourgeois” (1918) | “To have more, you need to produce more. To produce more, you need to know more. ”(1920) | “The cigarette" Medoc "smokes a connoisseur" (1925) | "The Overcoat: Film Gesture in the manner of Gogol" (1926) | "Opponents: A film novel in 6 parts" (1926) | "News. Require everywhere in the pack cigarettes "Sapho" "(1927) |