Arapov Anatoly Afanasevich
(1876-1949)

Arapov Anatoly Afanasevich was born in St. Petersburg. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting (1897-1906). In 1911 he traveled to Germany, Switzerland and Italy. At exhibitions from 1904. (MUZHVZ). In 1907. - Participant "Blue Rose", 1910. - CPX in Kiev, 1911, 1912, 1913 - "The World of Art" in St. Petersburg, 1914. - An exhibition of paintings and sculptures "Artists of Moscow - victims of war", the exhibitors' Theatrical decorative art in the Soviet Union 1917-1927 "at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad," Artists of the Soviet theater (1917-1935gg.) In Leningrad (1936), Moscow (1945 ., 1947., 1956., 1957.). worked in the theater since 1905 .. The designer was in theaters NN Zlobina and Free Theatre (Moscow), Komissarzhevskaya (Petrograd). After 1917. designed productions in theaters in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Vitebsk, Saratov and other cities. worked at the studios in Moscow and Leningrad: "Decembrists" (1926g.), "The Poet and the King" (1927), "Kastus Kalinowski" (1928g. ), "Feast of St. Jorgen" (1930), "Bride" (1936). artist and theater artist, painter and graphic artist. He started his career as a symbolist, in 1920 - the constructivist since the 1930s - Socialist realism. Theatre and film works marked a sharp sense of style, so to are characteristic. Very individual in easel painting (oil, tempera, pastel). Among his works - portraits, still lifes with views of ancient parks, ancient architecture, memorable places connected with the life of AS Pushkin, PI Tchaikovsky, AN Ostrovsky, TG Shevchenko. lived and died in Moscow.