The Russian Academy Of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition devoted to the Vikhansky dynasty of artists. The founder of the dynasty Samuel Vikhansky was born in 1902.

In 1920-22 Samuel Vikhansky studied painting under the talented artist and teacher Y.M. Pen at the Vitebsk Free Art Workshops. He continued his education in the Petrograd Society for the Encouragement of Artists and in the studio of Academician I.I. Brodsky. He made himself known by his first works “A Peasant Girl” and Komsomol Member” realistically depicting Russian life in the late 1920s. The artist’s canvases were distinguished by an inner energy and optimism consonant with the ideas and moods of that time. His most famous painting “Homeless Children” (1933) is in the collection of the State Russian Museum. In 2010 it was shown at the exhibition “Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” in A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Unfortunately, the majority of works by Samuel Vikhansky perished in the besieged Leningrad when his studio was destroyed by a fascist bomb.

On display are books and art materials dedicated to the artist’s life and creative work, as well as reproductions of his paintings, catalogues of exhibitions.

The dynasty has been continued by his sons – Alim (b. 1936), Victor (b. 1938) and Igor (b. 1941). All of them are graduates of V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute and have the title of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

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