Finogenov Konstantin

1902 – 1989

Konstantin Ivanovich Finogenov was born in 1902 in Tsaritsyn. In 1932 he graduated from Moscow Polygraphic Insititute (now Moscow State University of Printing Arts) where he studied under the supervision of A. Goncharov, I. Mashkov and N. Radlov. In 1932, after finishing the university he joined the Moscow Union of Artists.

During the World War II due to the assignments of the Main Political Department of the Red Army and the USSR Committee of Arts Konstantin Finogenov traveled to the battlefields near Moscow, to the South-Western, front in Bryansk, the Orel-Kursk arc, to Stalingrad, the Soviet zone in Berlin, where he worked as a front-line artist for the magazine "Okna TASS" and the newspaper "Pravda".

In 1949 the artist was awarded the USSR State Prize and in 1951 he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR". Konstantin Finogenov had diplomas of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR and the Moscow Union of Artists of the RSFSR.

In 1959, 1962, 1965, 1973 personal exhibitions took place in Moscow, Volgograd, Ryazan, Kursk and Kazan.

The most significant artworks by Konstantin Ivanovich Finogenov are: "The Metro Komsomol members" (1935), "Workers-Volunteers Registration to the Front" (1938), "A. S. Shcherbakov with the Guerrillas from the Moscow Region "(1942)," Portrait of the Commander of the 64th Army, Lieutenant-General M. S. Shumilov "(1943),"V. Lenin with the Working People from Central Asian Republics "(1970).

The artworks by Konstantin Finogenov are represented in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts named by Alexander Pushkin; in the art museums in Volgograd, Gorlovka, Naberezhnye Chelny, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London, in the Indian Parliament Art Gallery; as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.