Vladimir Igoshev

Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Igoshev at their farmhouse near the village of Askino in Bashkiria (1921). Moved with his family to Verkhnyaya Tura in Sverdlovsk Region (early 1930s). Studied under Ivan Uryadov and Alexander Tyulkin at Ufa School of Art (1936–40). Conscripted into the Red Army (1940) and fought in the Second World War (1941–43). Wounded in the chest at the Battle of Stalingrad (1943) and evacuated to Ufa (1944). Member of the Union of Artists (1944). Studied under Georgy Ryazhsky, Dmitry Mochalsky, Konstantin Maximov and Vitaly Pochitalov at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts/Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1944–50). Trained at the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Artists (1951–68) and worked in the villages of Nyaksimvol, Saranpaul and Suyevatpaul in Yugra (1954–70). Awarded a first-class diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR (1954) and the Ilya Repin Prize (1982). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1961), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1965), People’s Artist of the USSR (1991). Professor (1965), taught drawing at the Moscow Institute of Architecture (from 1968) and painting at the Vladimir Lenin Pedagogical Institute/Moscow Pedagogical University (from 1989). Opened a memorial museum at 7 Loparyov Street in Khanty-Mansiisk (2001). Died in Moscow and buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery (2007). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1944). Contributed to the Exhibition of Works by Bashkir Artists Dedicated to the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic at the Bashkir Museum of Art in Ufa (1949), Exhibition of Works by Artists of Bashkiria Dedicated to the Seventieth Anniversary of Joseph Stalin in Ufa (1949), Exhibition of Works by Artists-Participants of the Creative Group of the Senezh Lake House of Creativity in the Union of Artists Organising Committee at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1952), Exhibition of Works by Young Artists at the House of Workers of the Arts in Sverdlovsk (1952), Exhibition of Works by Artists of the RSFSR of 1953 at the Union of Artists Organising Committee in Moscow (1953), Sverdlovsk Art Exhibition of 1954 at Sverdlovsk Picture Gallery in Sverdlovsk (1954), Exhibition of Works by Artists of the RSFSR of 1954 at the House of the Artist in Moscow (1954–55), 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), Exhibition of Fine Art and Folk Creativity by Artists of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the Union of Artists at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1955), Exhibition of Works by Artists of the RSFSR of 1955 at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1955), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Boris Kustodiev Regional Picture Gallery in Astrakhan (1955), Dagestani Philharmonic Hall in Makhachkala (1955), Vladimir Lenin Palace of Culture in Grozny (1955), Kosta Khetagkati Park of Culture in Ordzhonikidze (1955), Museum of Local Studies in Nalchik (1955), Vasily Blinov Club in Stavropole (1955) and Theatre of Musical Comedy in Pyatigorsk (1955–56), 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 Artists of the RSFSR of 1955 at Chelyabinsk Municipal Picture Gallery in Chelyabinsk (1955), Stavropole (1955), Council of Ministers of the USSR Club in Moscow (1955–56), Union of Artists in Novosibirsk (1956), Art Salon in Barnaul (1956), Museum of Local Studies in Biisk (1956), Museum of Fine Arts in Omsk (1956), Regional Museum of Local Studies in Tyumen (1956), Tobolsk (1956), Sverdlovsk Picture Gallery in Sverdlovsk (1956–57), Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Museum in Kazan (1957), Yoshkar-Ola (1957) and Ryazan Regional Museum of Art in Ryazan (1957), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the House of Architects in Stalingrad (1956), Boris Kustodiev Regional Picture Gallery in Astrakhan (1956), Sailors’ Club in Krasnovodsk (1956–57), Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts in Ashgabat (1957), Mämmetweli Kemine Municipal Theatre in Mary (1957), Bukhara Regional Museum of Local Studies in Bukhara (1957), Republican Museum of the History, Culture and Art of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in Samarkand (1957), Kam?l ud-D?n Behz?d Regional Unified Museum of the History, Local Studies and Fine Art of Tajikistan in Stalinabad (1957) and the Alexander Pushkin Theatre in Leninabad (1957), 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), Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art on the Occasion of the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists at the Union of Artists, Academy of Arts of the USSR, House of the Artist, ZiL Palace of Culture and Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow (1957), Exhibition of Works by Sverdlovsk Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at Sverdlovsk Picture Gallery in Sverdlovsk (1957), Exhibition of Works by Artists of the RSFSR Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at Gorky Park in Moscow (1957), Exhibition of Pictures by Sverdlovsk Artists at the Ural Cinema in Sverdlovsk (1958), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists Dedicated to the XXV Communist Party Congress in Moscow (1975), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), Exhibition of Works of Fine Art of Socialist Countries at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1958) and one-man shows in Ufa (1944), Sverdlovsk (1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1967), Moscow (1956, 1964, 1967, 1987, 1991, 2002), Tyumen (1959), Perm (1959), Chelyabinsk (1959), Tokyo (1977), Budapest (1979), Prague (1979), Bratislava (1979) and Khanty-Mansiisk (1991, 1997).