Efros Gerasimos G.

July 2, 1902 (St. Petersburg) - November 12, 1979 (Leningrad)

Graphic artist, painter.

early to start drawing, children's drawings Efros his parents specifically showed Ilya Repin, who encouraged the continuation of the artistic education of boys. He studied at the real school and art school at the same time M. Bernstein (1915-1916). In 1918 he entered the Petersburg State Free Art Studios (renamed in 1921 in VHUTEIN), worked in the workshop Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1924 he graduated from the picturesque branch and in the same year he became engaged in the architectural department VHUTEINa, diploma course in 1929.

Since mid-1920 until early 1930 worked a lot of posters, as well as the satirical magazine graphics, collaborated with the Moscow and Leningrad magazines "Behemoth", "Buzoter", "laughers", "Red crow "," Lapot "," Cannon, "The Auditor", "Crocodile". Created cycles of "Stories of the NEP", "Domestic" and so on.

in 1933 became a member of the Leningrad Union of Architects. In 1938-1940 the sketch multifigured monumental frieze for competitive project of the Palace of Soviets in Moscow, VA Shuko and VG Gelfreich on the theme "Harvest", "aircraft manufacturers," miners " . Since the late 1930 at the invitation of NA Stipa taught drawing at the architectural department of the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute (LISI). In 1942, together with LISI evacuated to Barnaul. In the postwar years was engaged mostly in teaching, until 1961 - in LISI in 1962 - at the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. Alexander Herzen.

Efros is one of the most significant artists of the Soviet satirical graphics 1920. His creative little known "public" and is relatively small. Basically this is a satirical drawings to magazines, made in 1920. In them the grotesque, the sharp vein accurately reflects the era of the NEP, its characteristic types. This is a quality in common with the work schedule Efros many of his contemporaries - VV Lebedev, VM Konashevych, VI Kozlinski, GP Goltz and others. After the closure in late 1920 - early 1930's series of satirical magazines, including "Hippo", the artist left the active creative work, preferring to end the life of her teaching.

In 1988 in Moscow in the series "Masters of Soviet cartoon" was released book about the artist, written by G. Rose and R. Cherniak. In 2004 in Moscow gallery "Art-Divazh" held a retrospective exhibition of works Efros. The works of masters are mostly in private collections.