Пивоваров, Виктор Дмитриевич

Painter, graphic artist

Born Moscow, 14 January 1937

Victor Pivovarov studied from 1951 to 1957 at the Kalinin Industrial Art School and from 1957 to 1962 at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute where he graduated as a book illustrator and designer. He worked as an illustrator, primarily of children’s books and children's magazines such as Veselye Kartinki and Murzilka. Pivovarov’s studio was not far from Sretensky Boulevard, were the studios of other artists like Ilia Kabakov Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev, Ulo Sooster, Ernst Neizvestny, and Vladimir Yankilevsky. All these artists met frequently and discussed their works. In this surrounding, sometimes called the Sretensky Boulevard Group, the formation of the Moscow Conceptualist School took place and Pivovarov became part of it. In 1982, Pivovarov emigrated to Prague, where he now lives. 

1973

1976-78

1980

1982

1989

1990-91

1993

1996

2000

2001

2004