Vladimir Gavrilov

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Father of pianist Andrei Gavrilov (born 1955). Born in the family of Nikolai Gavrilov in Moscow (1923). Studied under Vitaly Pochitalov at the Moscow Secondary School of Art (1938–42). Worked for the Mitrofan Grekov Studio of War Artists (1942–45). Studied under Igor Grabar, Boris Johanson, Sergei Gerasimov, Vitaly Pochitalov, Alexei Gritsai and Vasily Yefanov at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts/Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1945–51). Married Armenian pianist Assanetta Eguiserian (1925–2006). Worked at the Academy Dacha near Vyshny Volochyok in Tver Region (from 1954) and travelled with Ivan Sorokin to Novgorod and Pskov (mid-1960s). Taught at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1968–70). Died in Moscow and buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery (1970). Posthumously awarded the Ilya Repin Prize (1971). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1943). Contributed to the Exhibition of Works by Young Artists Dedicated to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Lenin Komsomol at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1943), Exhibition of Works by War Artists of the Grekov Studio Dedicated to the Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of the Red Army and Navy at the Mikhail Frunze Central House of the Red Army in Moscow (1944), Exhibition of Soviet Painting and Graphic Art at the Museum of Latvian and Russian Art in Riga and the House of the Arts in Tallinn (1945), Travelling Exhibition of Painting and Graphic Art by Soviet Artists in Tbilisi (1946), Exhibition of New Works Received and Acquired in 1945–48 at the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Art in Irkutsk (1949), Third Exhibition of Study and Diploma Works by Students of Moscow and Leningrad Art Institutes at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1951), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1951 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1951–52), Spring Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists at the Moscow Fellowship of Artists in Moscow (1952), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat (1952), Agricultural College Student Hostel at 26 Lenin (now Rudaki) Street in Stalinabad (1952), House of Scientists in Samarkand (1952), Museum of Fine Arts in Tashkent (1952), Opera Theatre in Almaty (1952), Ray of the East Collective Farm in Kazakhstan (1952) and in Frunze (1952–53), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1952 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1952–53), First Exhibition of Studies by Young Artists of Moscow at the Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow (1954), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Regional Museum of Local Studies in Tyumen, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts in Nizhny Tagil, Molotov Art Gallery in Molotov and Maxim Gorky Regional Museum of Art in Kirov (1954), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Ulan-Ude (1955), Irkutsk (1955), Krasnoyarsk (1955), Tomsk (1955), Kurgan (1955), Chelyabinsk (1955), Kustanay (1955), Chkalov (1956), Kuibyshev (1956), Penza (1956), Novocherkassk (1956), Saransk (1956) and Kazan (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Kaluga Regional Museum of Art in Kaluga (1955–56), Museum of Local Studies in Zlatoust (1956), Museum of Local Studies in Magnitogorsk (1956), Regional Museum of Local Studies in Chkalov (1956) and Simferopole Museum of Art in Simferopole (1956), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists 1917–56 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1956), Second Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow and Moscow Region in the House of the Artist and the Union of Artists at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Derbent, Makhachkala, Baku, Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Poti, Kirovokan (renamed Vanadzor in 1993), Leninakan (renamed Gyumri in 1990), Rustavi, Yerevan, Sukhumi and Sochi (1957), Third Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow and Moscow Region at the Union of Artists in Moscow (1957), Travelling Art Exhibition in Baku, Rustavi, Tbilisi and Kutaisi (1957), USSR is Our Motherland in Moscow, Chi?in?u, Kiev, Odessa and Baku (1972), Impressionism in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000), Goodbye, Summer! Goodbye! at the Tver Regional Picture Gallery in Tver (2011), Exhibition of Study and Diploma Works of Soviet Art Educational Establishments in Warsaw, Krakow and Sopot (1953), Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art at the V World Festival of Youth and Students in the People’s Republic of Poland in Warsaw (1955), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in the People’s Republic of China at the Palace Museum in Beijing (1958), Expo ‘58 in Brussels (1958) and one-man shows at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow and Leningrad (1975).