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Pyotr Alexandrovich Krivonogov
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Pyotr Alexandrovich Krivonogov was a Soviet battle painter. Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR and recipient of the Stalin Prize. He was born on 8 September 1910 in Kiyasovo. His father died during the Civil War, and at the age of twelve Pyotr became a hired farm worker and later became homeless. In 1924 he was placed in an orphanage in Kineshma. Pyotr completed seven years of schooling and in 1930 enrolled in a workers' preparatory faculty of arts (rabfak), and subsequently in the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After graduating from the Academy he received his diploma with honors.
In 1939 Krivonogov was drafted into the army, and in 1940 he was admitted to the Red Army Studio named after M. B. Grekov. He served in the active forces during World War II, fighting from Moscow to Berlin. After the war he lived and worked in Moscow, occasionally returning to Udmurtia. In 1948 he created his best-known painting, 'Victory', about the capture of the Reichstag. In 1949 Krivonogov was awarded the Stalin Prize, 2nd class, for the canvas. In subsequent years the painter was granted the title of Honored Art Worker and awarded the Grekov Gold Medal. Pyotr Alexandrovich Krivonogov died on 22 August 1967 in Moscow.
Date of birth
08 September 1910
Date of death
22 August 1967
Occupation
Artist