25.02.1879-19.12.1955

Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov is a Russian and Soviet artist, painter, graphic artist, cartoonist, poster artist, teacher, professor at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin and the Higher School of Art and Industry. VI Mukhina, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.

Lyubimov was born in the village of Paltsevo, Kursk province, in the family of a nobleman. Alexander Mihajlovich has devoted many years in the life to study. In 1895 he entered the Central School of Technical Drawing Baron A. Stieglitz. Since 1901 he studied at the Higher Art School under the Imperial Academy of Arts in the personal workshop of Ilya Repin.

After graduating from the Higher Art School under the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1909, the master, on the recommendation of I.E. Repin, who headed the Kharkov Art College, collaborated with the magazine “Theater and Art”, created an extensive gallery of images of theatrical figures of the beginning of the century, among which were Gorky, Chaliapin, Meyerhold, Komissarzhevskaya, Stanislavsky, Sobinovi others.

During the Civil War Lyubimov carried out propaganda panels and posters, executed agitation trains, worked in the Caucasian and Transcaucasian branches of the ROSTA Windows, collaborated with the magazines “Krasnaya Panorama” and “Vokrug Sveta”, and worked in the field of film posters.

The painter participated in exhibitions, painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, landscapes, drew satirical illustrations, theatrical sketches, caricatures. He worked in the technique of oil painting, watercolors, gouache, pastels, pencil drawing.

During the Great Patriotic War, Alexander Lyubimov created anti-Nazi posters, portrayed Hitler and the fascists in a miserable and unattractive form.

The artist’s picturesque manner is distinguished by the richness of tonal relations and perfect drawing, wide free writing, the use of a variety of textures – from pasty-laid color stains to transparent reflexes and shadows creating a volumetric-spatial characteristic of the form.

Works by A.M. Lyubimov is in the State Russian Museum, in the Kursk State Picture Gallery. A.A. Deineka, in the North Ossetian Republican Art Museum. M.S. Tuganov, VOKHM them. I.N. Kramskoy and in other museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the United States, France and other countries.