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Alexander Firsovich Sukhanov
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Alexander Firsovich Sukhanov was a Russian Soviet painter, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Alexander Sukhanov was born in the village of Gornoye in the Smolensk Governorate. From 1939 to 1944 he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School under the guidance of V.V. Pochitalova. He then continued his studies at the State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, under the supervision of Professor S.V. Gerasimova. Sukhanov's diploma work was "Group Portrait of Collective Farm Workers." In 1957 Sukhanov joined the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Sukhanov created significant works of monumental art, among them the mosaic "A.V. Suvorov" (1952, Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow), two panels "The Union of Science and Labor" and "Friendship of the Peoples of the USSR" (1953, the Soviet pavilion at the international fair in Leipzig). He participated in the creation of the panorama "Defense of Sevastopol" (1953–1954, Sevastopol) under the direction of V.N. Yakovleva and P.P. Sokolov-Skala, and the panorama "The Battle of Borodino" (1962, Moscow). Beginning in 1956, his easel works were exhibited at all-Union, republican, youth, Moscow, and foreign exhibitions. Among the artist's best-known works are: "Landscape. Central Asia", "Factory", "Courtyard", "Little Street" (1956–1957), "Portrait of the Sculptor D. Shakhovsky" (1958), "Prospecting Geologists" (1959), "Portrait of a Driver" (1961), "Portraits of N. Butchenko and corn-grower Kalagin" (1962, from a series of portraits of leading agricultural workers of Altai Krai), "My Family" (1964), "Countrymen" (1965). Alexander Firsovich Sukhanov died in 1995.
Date of birth
07 February 1924
Date of death
01 January 1995
Occupation
Artist