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Russian artist

Zagonek

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Biography

Viacheslav Frantsevich Zagonek (Vyachaslev) (1919–1994) People's Artist of the USSR, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Laureate of I.E.Repin State Prize, Viacheslav Zagonek, is known as an outstanding lyrical scenery master.

Youth and education

Born in 1919 in Irkutsk, Zagonek attended the Children's Art School in Leningrad from 1932, the Leningrad Intermediate Art School from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II then resumed his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts then known as the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, from 1945-1950.

Life and work

Zagonek became a member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 1975. Awarded the title "People's Artist of the USSR" in 1985. Zagonek lived in St. Petersburg until his death in 1994.

Some of the canvases by V.Zagonek are on permanent display in the largest museum collections of Russia: State Russian Museum (http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/home/), the State Tretyakov Gallery (http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/), the Saratov State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.N. Radishev (http://www.radmuseumart.ru/ http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1453 ), Astrakhan Painting Gallery named after B.M.Kustodiev (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1447), Yaroslavl Art Museum (http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1592); the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg; Lvov State Paintings Gallery, Ukraine; Perm State Painting Gallery; Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine.

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