1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The year 1944 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events

• February 23 — Exhibition of works by artists of Battle Art Studio after Mitrofan Grekov was opened in Moscow in the Central House of Red Army. The exposition includes art works by 36 authors.
• August 1 — Exhibition of landscape painting was opened in Moscow. Exhibited 200 works of painting and graphics of 98 authors. The participants were Pavel Kuznetsov, Alexander Kuprin, Eugene Lanceray, Dmitriy Nalbandyan, Alexander Osmerkin, Fyodor Reshetnikov, Konstantin Yuon, and other important Soviet artists.^[1]

Deaths

• March 20 — Ilya Mashkov (Russian: Машков Илья Иванович), Russian Soviet painter, exhibitor of the circle of "Jack of Diamonds" (Russian: Бубновый Валет), Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (b. 1881).
• December 13 — Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Кандинский Василий Васильевич), Russian abstract painter and art theorist (b. 1866).

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  Ilya Mashkov

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  Wassily Kandinsky

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944 paintings.

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture

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