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Viktor Grigorevich Puzyrkov, born in 1918 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, was a leading Kiev socialist realist of the 1940s.
He was educated at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College from 1936 to 1938, at the Kiev Art Institute from 1938 to 1941, at the Moscow Art Institute (in Samarkand) from 1942 to 1943, and again at the Kiev Art Institute from 1944 to 1946. He was active in Kiev, Ukraine.
Important shows include:
‘All-Union Art Exhibtion’, Moscow: 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955.
He specialize in sea subjects and thematic works in a sea setting.
Important works include:
- “Black Sea Sailors”. 1947, Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art.
- “Stalin on the Cruiser ‘Molotov’”. 1949, Tretyakov Gallery.
He taught at the Kiev Art Institute from 1948 to the 1990s, and was head of the painting department there since 1979.
He was awarded the Stalin Prizes in 1948 and 1950. He received the title “People’s Artist of the USSR” in 1979.
His works have been published in numerous books and journals, including:
- “Art Under Stalin.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Holmes & Meier Publishers, New York. 1991.
- “Soviet Fine Arts.” Fine Arts, Moscow, 1982.
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- Black Sea Sailors