Васнецов, Юрий Алексеевич

Graphic artist, painter, theatre designer

Born Viatka, 22 March 1900

Died Leningrad, 3 May 1973

Vasnetsov studied 1910 with A.I. Stolbov in Viatka and 1921-26 at The SVOMAS in Petrograd/Leningrad under Vakhrameev. 1926-28 he studied under Malevich at the Institute of Artistic Culure in Leningrad. He started working as a children's book illustrator in1928 and took lessons with V.V. Lebedev. In 1935 his first illustrated book: 'the three bears' by L. Tolstoi was published. Vasnetsov mainly worked as an illustrator but was also a prolific painter who never had an exhibition of his paintings during his lifetime. In 1946 he became an Honoured artist of the RSFSR.

1935

1936

1937

1938-39

1941

1944

1948

1951

1952

1953

1962-63

1964-65

1966-67

1968-69

1971

1973

1974-75

1976-77

1978-79

1984-85

1986 -87

1989

1992, 1994

2007

2011

2012-13

2014