Shmarin Dementiy A.

May 12, 1907 (Kazan) - August 30, 1999 (Moscow)

Graphic artist, painter.

born in the family of an agronomist. Art education has received in the studio, NA Prahova in Kiev (1919-1922), then in Moscow, in the Studio School KP Chemko in D. Kardovsky ( 1932-1928).

lived in Moscow, worked primarily in the field of book graphics. In 1935-1936 designed the "Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and in 1936 created the illustrations for the book by Maxim Gorky's" Life of Matvey Kozhemyakina, the work on which the advice of the author, in 1937 illustrated the "Belkin" A . Pushkin.

in 1939 tried his hand in the field of monumental painting. He performed the decorative panels "Masters Stakhanovite harvests in VSHV, as well as" noble people of the Soviet Union "at the World Fair in New York (not preserved).

During World War II created a series of drawings, "Do not forget, not forgive!", marked the Stalin Prize, worked in the area of the poster. In the 1940-1945 cycle completed illustrations for the novel by A. Tolstoy "Peter I».

Among the post-war works Shmarinov - illustrations for the novel of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace "(1953-1955), the works of William Shakespeare's" Romeo and Juliet "(1959 -1960), and "Twelfth Night" (1964), Nikolai Gogol Taras Bulba "(1969), E. Hemingway" For Whom the Bell Tolls "(1979). In 1965 he traveled to Italy, there's plenty of running full-scale drawings.

In 1953 elected a member of the USSR Academy of Arts (later - Russia Academy of Arts). In 1959-1961 served as chairman of the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR in 1966-1968 and 1972-1973 - the post of chairman of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1962-1966 headed the creative workshop schedules in Moscow. In 1967 awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR. In 1980 he was awarded the Lenin Prize. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.

in 1989 published a biographical book "Years of life and work».

Shmarinov - one of the most significant and well-known illustrators of the Soviet book. In his work he drew on the traditions of book illustration of the second half of XIX century, in particular, PP Sokolov, intimacy with the works of which is found even in the techniques. As Sokolov, Shmarinov often created monochrome pictures of black watercolor or charcoal, which are the most expressive and valued among his works. Works watercolor in color are more rare.

artistic heritage of the wizard is extremely high. Shmarinov works are in collections of major national museums, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin and others.