14.03.1905 – 1983

Valery I. levanidov-painter, graphic artist, participant of the great Patriotic war. He spent his childhood in Gorokhovets, Vladimir region. Love to paint the boy was evident from an early age. The artist devoted many years to study, adopting knowledge from famous masters. In 1923 he enrolled in the Nizhny Novgorod state art and industrial College. 4 years of learning mentors the young artist was V. S. Ivanov, V. A. Likin, and A. V. Fonvizin, after graduating from College in 1927 Levanidov entered the art and technology Institute at the faculty of painting, where he taught KN. Istomin, S. V. Gerasimov and A. A. Osmerkin. Valery Ivanovich also devoted a year of study at the Institute of proletarian fine arts at the Department of mass-household painting in St. Petersburg.
Having received art education, Levanidov moved to live in Moscow, where he was engaged in festive decoration of streets and squares of the city. The master painted portraits, still lifes, thematic paintings.
Since 1934, the artist began to participate in exhibitions, which took place in Moscow and had a historical and Patriotic orientation, and in 1939 held a solo exhibition in the capital. Valery Ivanovich was the participant of the great Patriotic war from 1941 to 1945.
The artist died in 1983, leaving behind a lot of works that are represented in many Museum collections, including the State Russian Museum and regional collections.
In 1986, a memorial exhibition was organized in honor of the artist.