MAXIMOV Kondrat Evdokimovich

1894 (d Shishkino Vyatka Province) - 1981 (Kazan (?))

Painter, graphic artist

from timber-family. Studied at the Kazan Art School (1914-1917; course did not finish). Several years he worked with the painter M. Guzhavinym.

lived in Kazan.

He painted landscapes, still lifes. Regularly travel to the sketches on the banks of the Volga and Kama, has traveled around the country - visited the Urals, the Crimea, the Carpathians, the Caucasus.

Since 1926 - participant of exhibitions. The exhibit of paintings at the exhibition of the Society of Artists. AIKuindzhi (1928). Member of the creative association "Tathudozhnik" (from 1936), People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan.

In 1930-50-x toolmaker worked at a shipyard, the experimental station Rafting, the Leningrad branch of forestry. For several years developing improvements in the mechanization Rafting: account Maximov 27 patented inventions. Awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labor. In November 1941, was arrested and charged with "defeatist talk", released in 1942 for lack of evidence.

In 2008, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan held a retrospective exhibition of Maximov.

most significant collections of works by the artist have the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan and Almetyevsk art gallery.