Vladimir Stozharov

Painter, graphic artist. Born in Moscow in the family of a chauffeur called Fyodor Stozharov (1926). Lived in Apartment 8 at 21 Large Carriage Lane in Moscow and spent his summers in the village of Svinorye in Moscow Region (1920s–30s). Studied under Pavel Koshevoi, Sergei Mikhailov, Vitaly Pochitalov and Akindin Shorchev at the Moscow Secondary School of Art in Moscow and the village of Voskresenskoe in Bashkiria (1935–45) and under Dmitry Mochalsky, Georgy Savitsky and Vitaly Pochitalov at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts/Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1945–51). Married Nadezhda Ryazanova and had sons Alexander and Konstantin. Visited Siberia (1952) and travelled with Ivan Sorokin to the River Yenisei and River Angara (1953), Far North (1954) and Kazakhstan (1955). Member of the Union of Artists (1955). Visited Kostroma and Yaroslavl Regions (1956–59), Italy (1959, 1967) and France (1960). Travelled to Vologda Region with Gennady Darin and Fyodor Novotelnov (1959–60), Kostroma and Yaroslavl Regions with Gennady Darin, Fyodor Novotelnov, Igor Popov and Yury Semenyuk (1961), Arkhangelsk Region and the Komi Republic with Gennady Darin and Galina Ogaryova-Darina (1962) and Arkhangelsk Region with Yefrem Zverkov and Igor Popov (1963). Visited the Komi Republic with Yefrem Zverkov and Igor Popov (1964) and with Yefrem Zverkov and Yury Semenyuk (1965–66). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1965). Visited Novgorod and Pskov Regions (1967). Winner of a silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1967) and the Ilya Repin Prize (1968). Travelled to Pskov, Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and Vladimir Regions with Gennady Darin, Yury Semenyuk and Vladimir Ulyanov (1968), Komi Republic with Gennady Darin and Yefrem Zverkov (1969), Kostroma and Yaroslavl Regions (1969) and Pskov, Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kostroma and Vladimir Regions with Gennady Darin, Yury Semenyuk and Vladimir Ulyanov (1970). Visited Great Britain (1971), Romania (1971–72) and Yaroslavl and Kostroma Regions (1972). Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973). Died at the age of forty-seven in Moscow and buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery with a gravestone sculpted by Alexander Scherbakov (1973). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1952). Contributed to the First Exhibition of Studies by Young Artists of Moscow at the Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow (1954), Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1954), Exhibition of Works by Young Moscow Artists in the House of the Artist at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1954), Exhibition of Painting by a Group of Moscow Artists at Stalin (renamed Izmailovo in 1956) Park in Moscow (1954), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists Made on Trips to the Virgin and Fallow Lands in 1954 at the ZiL Palace of Culture in Moscow (1955), Painting and Graphic Art by Moscow Artists at the Central House of Workers of the Arts and the Central House of the Soviet Army 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 Yaroslavl Museum of Art in Yaroslavl, Vologda Regional Picture Gallery in Vologda and Molotov Gallery of Art in Molotov (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists at the Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow, State District Power Plant Club in Kemerovo, House of Culture in Novoorsk, Miner Club in Belovo and Technical House in Kiselyovsk (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Union of Artists in Bryansk (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Simferopole, Sebastopole and Theodosia (1957), Third Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow and Moscow Region at the Union of Artists in Moscow (1957), Travelling Exhibition of Soviet Artists at Izmailovo Park in Moscow, Smolensk Museum of Fine and Applied Art, Railway Worker’s Palace of Culture in Homel, House of Folk Creativity in Mohilev and the Park of Culture and Relaxation in Babruysk (1957), Exhibition of Works of Soviet Art at the Kazakh Gallery of Art in Almaty (1957), Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of the Soviet Union for the VI World Festival of Youth and Students at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1957), International Exhibition of Fine and Applied Art at Gorky Park in Moscow (1957), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists at the Municipal Museum of Local Studies in Zlatoust (1957), All-Union Art Exhibition Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall, Academy of Arts of the USSR, House of the Artist, Union of Artists and Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow (1957–58), Fourth Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow at the House of the Artist, House of the Union of Artists of the USSR and Gorky Park in Moscow (1958), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Novgorod (1958), All-Union Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Kiev, Chi?in?u, Minsk, Vilnius and Kaunas (1958–59), I Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1960), Moscow is the Capital of Our Homeland at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1964–65), II Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1965), Monuments of Old Russian Architecture in the Works of Moscow Artists in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1966), First Intersectional Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1967), Artists of Moscow to the Fiftieth Anniversary of October at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1967), All-Union Jubilee Art Exhibition Dedicated to the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Moscow (1967), III Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1967), Exhibition of Russian Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Art: Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art from New Acquisitions (1963–68) at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1968), Exhibition of Works Nominated for the Ilya Repin State Prize of the RSFSR in Moscow (1968), IV Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1970), Jubilee Exhibition on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Lenin at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1970), The Russian North in Moscow (1971), USSR is Our Motherland in Moscow, Chi?in?u, Kiev, Odessa and Baku (1972), Still-Life Republican Exhibition in Moscow (1972–73), Artists of Soviet Russia to the Working Class in Gorky, Leningrad and Kiev (1974), Exhibition of Works by Members of the Academy of Arts of the USSR on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Transformation of the All-Russian Academy of Arts into the Academy of Arts of the USSR at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1974), V Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1975), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists Dedicated to the XXV Communist Party Congress in Moscow (1975), Zonal Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1975), Glory to Labour! All-Union Art Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1976), Moscow School of Painting in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1992), Russian House at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1995), Georgy Sviridov: The Last Classic of the Twentieth Century at the Mikhail Glinka Central Museum of Musical Culture in Moscow (1999), Impressionism in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000), World of Painting at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2001–02), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), The Four Seasons: Landscapes in Russia (19th–20th Centuries) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006–07), Image of the Motherland at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2007), 50/50: Art of the Twentieth Century at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2007), Moscow–Artists–Moscow: Jubilee Exhibition Dedicated to the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Moscow Branch of the Union of Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2007), Fatherland at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2008), Udora Album at the Komi Republic Representative Office in Moscow (2010), Realism in the Russian Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century from a Private Collection in Moscow at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2012), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in the People’s Republic of China at the Palace Museum in Beijing (1958), Sowjetische Kunst: Malerei und Plastik aus der UdSSR in the Pavillon der Kunst des VBKD at 33-37 Unter den Linden in East Berlin (1961), Fifty Years of Soviet Painting in Tokyo (1967), The Russian North in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania (1972), Exhibition on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Formation of the USSR: Paintings from the Collections of Soviet Museums in Delhi (1973), Le Salon 1974: grandes œuvres russes et mai?tres de la peinture contemporaine soviétique in Paris (1974), Wystawa prac cz?onko?w Akademii sztuki ZSRR at the Centralne Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych in Warsaw and the Galeria Sztuki BWA in Szczecin (1975), International Exhibition of Works by Art-School Students and Young Artists at the IV Congress of the International Union of Students in Prague (1956), Expo ‘58 in Brussels (1958), Biennale der Ostseeländer: Malerei, Grafik, Plastik aus Dänemark, BRD, DDR, Norwegen, der VR Polen, Schweden, Suomi-Finnland, UdSSR in Rostock (1965), XXXIII Venice Biennale (1966) and one-man shows in Syktyvkar, Arkhangelsk, Kirov, Izhevsk, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan, Kostroma, Ryazan, Bryansk, Kalinin, Tula, Kaluga and Smolensk (1972–74), Bulgaria (1975), Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1977), East Germany (1979), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1988), Obninsk (1999), House of the Artist at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1999) and the Ilya Repin Art and Memorial Museum in Chuhuiv (2006).