Biography of Alexei Komarov

The Skorodnoye of the Tula province - March 31 Moscow Schedule, painter, sculptor spent the first childhood years on the estate of his father near Tula, later the family moved to Tula. He graduated from the Tula real school. Stepanova, V. Baksheeva, N. lived in Tula -, Kazan -, Moscow -; - From until the advanced years he lived for a long time in the village of “Soviet artist” at the Sands station, not far from Kolomna.

He made a trip to Norway and Sweden, where he met with the works of the famous animalist Bruno Liliefors. One of the prominent Russian animalists. He worked mainly in the book graphics. Illustrated and issued books mainly for children for publishers I. Knebel, G. Mirimanov, I. Afanasyev, A. Georgian in 5 volumes, - together with M. Shcheglov, “Cossack Lullaby Song” and “Three Palmes” by M.

Lermontov, “Fables” by I. Krylov, and “Read, Foma, Get Mind”, grind. Spasski D. Poor, “Broat hut” by A. Fedorov-Davydov, “Stories about animals. Small zoology "V. Cretan, reprints. Tolstoy; Some of the originals made by pencil, mascara and pen are stored in the Museum of L. Tolstoy in Moscow, “in the storm” and “on the ice” A. Serafimovich, “Clusons on the Rocks” by T.

Main Read, “How a man became a giant” by M. Ilyin, “Travel. Travel notes »N. Spangenberg; “Beasts and birds of our country” by V. Shnitnikov, “worldly Zahrebetniki” by M. Bogdanov, Council. Bobrinsky, albums "Birds of Kazakhstan" TT. Krylova "–E. He performed the posters “The First All -Russian Exhibition and the Congress on Sheep breeding”, on the topics of protecting the health of children E, sewn the homeland during the Great Patriotic War.

Among his graphic works are drawings of pencil, mascara, feather, brush: “At the mill”, “Street in the village”, “By the Kostra”, “Stream” and others. In X performed sculptural figures: “Laika” “Siberian Laikh” and “Walking Bear” Both are gypsum, “Squirrel” selenite, used as samples of stone artels of Perm and Gorky regions; B - created the sculptures “Forest Tale” wood, “Leo” marble, “setter” marble and others.

According to the originals of Komarov, the publishers of the All -Russian Central Executive Committee and isogiz in - a series of wall animalist drawings and postcards, some of them were approved for printing by artistic advice with the participation of N. Krupskaya, A., from the beginning of the X for the Moscow magazines “Psovoy and Ruzhnoye Hunting”, “Hunting Bulletin”, “The Family of the Hunters”, “Murzilka”, “Hunting and Hunting Economy” since the year of the magazine, and others, he performed a series of drawings of the postage of the Fauna of the USSR and drawings for art marked envelopes.

He created dozens of paintings for the State Darwin Museum, with the director of which A. Kots was friendly for many years. He was exhibited with the third exhibition of graphics, Moscow, the 6th exhibition “Life-Creativity”, Moscow, the art exhibition “XX years of the Red Army and the Navy”, Moscow, the sixth exhibition of the Union of Moscow Artists, Moscow, the exhibition of works of young artists dedicated to the Firewood of the Leninsky Komsomol, Moscow, the exhibition of easel graphics of Moscow artists, the exhibition Moscow, an exhibition of painting, sculptures, graphs and works of theater and cinema artists in Moscow and Leningrad, Moscow and others.

Personal exhibitions took place,, all - Moscow, Krasnoyarsk, Minusinsk. At the anniversary of the artist, his personal exhibition “Good Wizard” was held at the State Darwin Museum. The works are in collections of a number of museums, including in the State Darwin Museum of Moscow, the Kursk Regional Picture Gallery, the Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore of Istra, the Kolomensky District Museum of Local Lore of Kolomna, the Biological Museum named after Timiryazeva Moscow and other rating of sales of Russian artists.