ZVEREV Anatoly Timofeevich

November 3, 1931 (Moscow) — December 9, 1986 (Moscow)

Painter, graphic artist

Zverev studied at Moscow Art College in the Memory of the Year 1905 (in 1954). He was expelled from the College. He developed as an artist independently; his education was at the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Since 1957 he began to participate in different exhibitions.

The first person who discovered the talent of Zverev was the collector and connoisseur of art A. Rumnev. Later, from 1959 till 1964, the artist collaborated with the famous Moscow collector G. D. Costakis.

In 1957 Zverev was awarded gold medal at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students within the International workshop of plastic arts.

Zverev took part in many important exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including:
1967 — exhibition of works by 12 Moscow artists (club Druzhba (“Friendship”), Moscow); exhibition of painting and graphic art from the collection of A. Gleser (Tbilisi);
1970 — exhibition Nouve correnti a Mosca (Museo Belle Arti, Legano, Switzerland);
1974 — exhibition Progressive Strömungen in Moskau 1957–1970 (Museum Bochum, Bochum, FRG);
1975 — exhibition at the pavilions Apiculture and House of Culture at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), Moscow;
1991 — exhibition Other art. Moscow. 1956-76 (the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow);
1995 — exhibition of works from the collection of Alexander Gleser (the Museum of private collections, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow);
1996 — Nonconformists — the Second Russian Avant-garde 1955–1988. From the collection of Y. Bar-Gera (the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow);

Since 1976 Zverev participated in the exhibitions of Moscow joint committee of graphic artists (MOKKhG) at 28, Malaya Gruzinskaya Street in Moscow.