KOZLOV Alexander

August 8, 1902 (Ekaterinburg) - August 20, 1946 (Moscow)

painter, graphic artist, set designer

Studied in GSHM (1918-1920) by AE Arkhipov, in Moscow GSHM - Higher Art (1920-1924), in the workshop DP Shterenberg .

lived in Moscow. Since 1925 - Member of the Society of Easel and exhibitor, participant 1-j (1925), 2 nd (1926), 3rd (1927) show OST, since 1931 - Member of the Board of the Company. He participated in many international fairs and exhibitions of Soviet art abroad: the exhibition of German artists (1928, Berlin), Artistic and Handicraft Exhibition of the USSR (1929, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit), "Contemporary Russian Art" (1930, Vienna) , exhibition of Soviet art (1930, Berlin), XVII International Exhibition of Arts (1930, Venice), the first exhibition of fine arts of the USSR (1930, Stockholm, Oslo, Berlin). Exhibited his works at the exhibition "Artists of the RSFSR XV Years" (1932-1933, Leningrad, 1933-1934, Moscow). Held a personal exhibition in Moscow (1945)

In the early 1930's was subjected to charges of formalism and sliding the position of bourgeois art "; continued to work actively, maintaining commitment to the expressive manner. He taught at the Moscow Art College and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the People's Commissariat of artists (1930-1941).

exhibition of paintings held in 1967 and 1979 in Moscow.

Creativity Kozlov represented in several museum collections, among them - the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin State Museum of Literature and others.