Description
Title | Russia.
Akhmed Kitayev – Russian painter. First decree of the Soviet government (1940). Pictorial Postcard |
Type | Pictorial Post card |
Artist | Soviet realist painter Akhmed Kitayev (15 February 1925 – 13 July 1996) – Member of the USSR Union of Artists.
Born in the village of Tatar Yunki, Mordovia, Akhmed Ibadullovich Kitayev grew up in the religious family (his grandfather was a mullah). When the boy was 5 years old, his family was exiled to Siberia (1930). Meanwhile, drawing accompanied the talented boy in grief and joy. Aged 10, Akhmed won the All-Union competition of young artists. And he decides on a brave act: he writes a letter to Stalin, in which he expresses a desire to learn to draw and asks him to help. A few weeks later, to the Siberian settlement where they lived, a military man appeared. He told Akhmed to get ready and put him on a train to Leningrad. So, in the 1940-1945’s he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School and then, at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute of VI Surikov (1945-1950). After graduation from the institute he worked in Moscow. Starting exhibiting since 1950, he took part in All-Union art exhibitions of Soviet Art in Moscow (1950, 1955), and “Soviet Russia” (Moscow, 1960). He mostly specialized in genre paintings, and since the 1960s – in portraits. Besides, in the 1950-1952 he taught at the Moscow Secondary Art School. Ahmed Ibadullovich died on July 13, 1996 (Moscow). |
Approx. Size | 5.8X4.1 inches (15X10.5 cm) |
Condition: | Good |
Edges/Corners | Fine |
Used/Unused | Unused |
Published by | „Sovetskii Khudozhnik“ Publisher, Moscow, 1955 |
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