KRAINEV Vasily

1879 (village Klucisi Kazan province) — 9 сентября 1955 (Moscow)

Painter, graphic artist

From a family of fireman. He studied at the Kazan art school (1900-1907) Г. А. Медведева, Х. Н. Скорнякова courses for teachers of drawing at the Imperial Academy of arts (1907), in MUZHVZ (1909-1915) А. М. Васнецова, К. А. Коровина, А. Е. Архипова, Л. А. Пастернака. During the years of study twice awarded cash prizes —. С. М. Третьякова (1912), n. a. Levitan (1913).

he Lived in Moscow. In 1923 he made a trip to the don. In 1925-1941 regularly went to her trips to the North — in Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Murmansk region, Kola Peninsula; he drew a series of sketches of "a Trip to the North." In 1932 as part of a team of artists worked on the plant Chusovoy in the Urals. In 1934, together with Б. В. Иогансоном completed in Crimea diorama "crossing the siwash". In 1937-1938 went to the sea of Azov.

the Author of thematic paintings: "Platamona factory", "Pasaycity at lunchtime", "sewing", "the wash"; landscape: "Mountain lake in a gloomy day", "Outpost. Aleksandrovsk", "Tundra", "Arctic Harbour", "the Murmansk coast", "Northern night", "Before the storm" and others. During the great Patriotic war performed a number of works on military topics: "the Red Army in the forests of Karelia", "Battleship "Marat" in the defense of Leningrad", "gifts to the front" and others.

From 1911 — participated in exhibitions. A member and Exhibitor of Moscow society of art lovers (1915), Moscow Association of artists (1917), society of artists "the Moscow salon" (1917-1918), TPHV (1922-1923), society of artists of the Moscow school (1923-1924), AHRR — akhr (1924-1929).

Exhibited: "Socialist construction in Soviet art" (1930), all-Union art exhibitions (1939 — "industry of socialism", 1943 — "Heroic front and rear", 1947, 1949, 1950, 1955), "the Landscape of our country" (1942), in Moscow, "Artists of the RSFSR for XV years" in Leningrad and Moscow (1932-1933), "XV years of the red army" in Leningrad (1934), exhibitions-отчетах 1-й Ural team of artists working on the new buildings of the Urals and the Kuznetsk basin in Sverdlovsk (1932) and Moscow (1934) and many others. Participant of several exhibitions abroad: exhibition AHR in Cologne (1929), Soviet art in Koenigsberg (1932), the world exhibition in new-Йорке (1939) and Brussels (1958).