Lev KROPIVNITSKY 1922 — 1995Лев КРОПИВНИЦЬКИЙ • Лев КРОПИВНИЦКИЙLev Kropivnitsky was born in Tiumen in Siberia in 1922. He was the son of Evgenii Kropivnitsky, a well-known artist and poet. In 1939 he entered the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Art, but in 1941 was sent to the army. He continued his education after 1945 and briefly studied under Alexander Deineka. He studied painting, glasswork, and mosaic. In 1946 he was arrested and sent to a labor camp where he continued his theoretical analysis of art forms and pondered the relationship between abstract and figurative art. In 1946 the artist was rehabilitated and returned to Moscow. In 1957 he completed his first abstract composition and later turned to Pop Art and fantastic realism. Kropivnitsky died in Moscow in 1995. |
