LUKOMSKY Ilya Belevich

1906 (Polotsk, Vitebsk province) — 3 марта 1954 (Moscow)

Painter, graphic artist

From the family of the employee. Childhood years spent in Mogilev-на-Днепре. In 1920 began working as a draftsman-оформителем in decorative workshops of the political Department of the army (later — Krasnoarmeysky University 16-й army); at the same time the red army was engaged in the art Studio under the guidance of artist М. Цехановского.

In 1922 he entered test-подготовительное Department of the Moscow VKhUTEMAS, in 1923-1930 учился in VKhUTEMAS — Vhuteine at monumental Department of the faculty of painting at П. В. Кузнецова, Л. А. Бруни, В. А. Фаворского, Н. М. Чернышева. In the years of study was part of the editorial Board of the journal OMAHR (1928).

In 1930-1931 he was in military service. In the late 1920-х — the first half of 1930-х repeatedly made creative trip; has visited Murmansk, Bukhara Urals (1929), the far East (1932), went to the Baltic (1933) and the black sea (1934) fleets, the construction of Stalinogorsk plant in the village of Beaver Tula region (1933-1935).

he Lived in Moscow. He painted portraits, genre pictures, landscapes. The author generalized ("genre") portraits: "the Portrait of Stalingrad Pravda" (1934), "a work the Country of the Soviets" (1930), "Defender of Stalingrad" (1943), "Soldiers Kosarev, who returned to peaceful labour" (1951); series of watercolors girls-авиаторов (1953); group portraits and thematic paintings — "the assault On coal" (1932), "the revolutionary military Council of the Special red banner far Eastern red army" (1932-1933), "On new construction (builders Stalinogorsk chemical plant)", "Factory party" (1937), "the Oath of Stalingrad" (1950) and others.

Performed a series of sketches for the unrealized film "Performance В. И. Ленина at the working meeting" (1939-1941), a cycle of gouaches "Canton commune" (1928-1929), the series of paintings "the North-Ташкентский channel" (1942), Stalingrad (1942-1943), "military landscapes" (1943-1945), "Front portraits" (1943-1946).

Worked as a muralist. In the early 1930-х participated in the decoration of the club special designation of the OGPU. Dzerzhinsky in Moscow (jointly with Ф. И. Невежиным, Ф. П. Малаевым, Н. Ф. Коротковой), which created a song "Internationale". In 1939 together with his wife, artist Н. Ф. Коротковой, completed the mural "Collective farm holiday in Uzbekistan" pavilion "Sericulture" at VSHV.

the First months of the great Patriotic war were in Moscow at the end of 1941 was evacuated to Tashkent. In the spring of 1942 he was called up for military service. From December 1942 he was at 62-й army to prepare work for the art exhibition dedicated to the 25th-летию the red army. From 1943 he enrolled in the military artists Studio them. М. Б. Грекова. In the same year sent for sketches of the fighting in the command of the commander of 8-й guards army В. И. Чуйкова out in the newly liberated Zaporozhye, the Ukrainian front. In 1945, he worked in Berlin. Awarded the medal "For military merit".

From 1929 — participant of exhibitions (11-я Ahram of the exhibition "Art into the masses"). Member of akhr (1929), the Russian Association of proletarian artists (1931-1932), mossh (1932). Exhibited: the works of revolutionary and Soviet themes (1930), "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" (1933), Moscow painters (1935, 1937, 1940), the all-Union exhibition of young artists dedicated to the 20-летию the Komsomol (1939), "the Great Patriotic war" (1942), the military artists Studio them. М. Б. Грекова (1943, 1944, 1945, 1950), all-Union art exhibitions (1946, 1947, 1951), "30 лет of the Soviet armed forces. 1918-1948" (1948), watercolor and gouache artists of Moscow Union of artists (1952) in Moscow, "XV years of the red army" in Kiev and Kharkiv (1934-1935), "Moscow artists — sponsored Gorky automobile plant" in Gorky (1935), graphics artists of Moscow and Leningrad during the great Patriotic war in Yerevan (1945) and others.

he was Buried at the cemetery Vagankovsky. Memorial exhibition of the artist held in Moscow (1958).

Work is represented in many Museum collections, including the State Tretyakov gallery, the State Russian Museum and others.