Viktor Popkov

Попков, Виктор Ефимович

Painter

Born Moscow, 9 March 1932

Died Moscow, 12 November 1974 

 

Popkov studied from 1948 to 1952 at the Moscow Pedagogical School of Graphic art and from 1952 to 1958 at the graphical department of the Moscow Surikov Art Institute under Evegenii Kibrik. His thesis project was a cycle of coloured linocuts titled 'Transport'. In 1957 he married the artist Klara Kalynicheva (1933-1999). Popkav started painting around 1960. He died due to a shooting accident.

 

1979

 

1989

 

2014