05.04.1924 – 20.06.2003

Boris Domashnikov was born in the village of Krigouzovo (Ivanovo region) into a large peasant family.

In 1935 the family moved to Ufa. Parents worked at an engine plant. During the war, the military registration and enlistment office refused to take him to the front for health reasons, and Boris worked in the art workshop of the city komkhoz – he wrote slogans, posters, soldiers’ funeral plaques.

From 1945 to 1950 he studied at the Ufa Theater and Art School (teachers A.E. Tyulkin and P.M. Lebedev).

After graduation, he taught drawing and drawing at school, worked as a decorator at the Ufa puppet theater.

Since 1953 he participated in exhibitions in Ufa (1953), Moscow (1954), Salavat (1966), Leningrad (1972), France, England, Holland (1976), Japan, East Germany, Poland, Hungary (1977).

In the 60s, the artist traveled to Italy, where he studied the originals of antiquity, was in Samarkand, Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov Veliky.

Associated with the artist’s name is the concept of “pure” landscape, where the plot does not carry a semantic load, and the goal is to expressively convey the author’s deeply personal, chamber emotional experiences.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1954), member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Bashkir ASSR (since 1957), member of the Central Auditing Commission of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1972-1980).

The artist’s works are in many museum (about 40) collections and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Academy of Arts, the State Museum of Oriental Art, the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Ufa, the Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov , Sevastopol Art Museum, Voronezh Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy and others.