Anatoly Ivanovich Kalashnikov

Anatoli Ivanovich Kalashnikov ( Russian Анатолий Иванович Калашников ; born April 5, 1930 in Moscow ; † April 21, 2007 ibid) was a Soviet and Russian graphic artist.

Life

Since Kalashnikov showed great artistic talent at an early age, he was accepted for training at the age of fifteen by the then famous woodcutter Ivan Pavlov . In his studio he met his future teacher Mikhail Matorin and switched to his master class at the Moscow Art School . After completing his training in 1949, he first worked as an industrial designer , then as an art editor at the Sowjetski pisatel publishing house . Since 1952 he has been a freelance graphic artist. In 1987, 120 personal exhibitions around the world were dedicated to his work. He has received numerous international awards for his bookplate and illustration artwork.

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Kalashnikov's profession is the woodcut. In addition to landscape motifs and city ​​vedutas , he also devoted himself to literary topics. He designed stamps and first day covers for the Soviet post office . The medium in which his originality could unfold most fully was the bookplate , of which he created more than a thousand originals. His most valued works include:

• " Dostojewski " wood engraving series (1971)
• Series of wood engravings based on the poems of Omar Chajjam (1972)
• More than fifty large-format wood engravings on the subject of " Russian Golden Ring " (1982ff)
• Wood engraving series " The Russian Patriotic War 1812 " after Tolstoy's War and Peace

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• Herbert Schwarz: Vita of the artist. In: Anatolij Iwanowitsch Kalaschnikow. Bookplates, cityscapes, illustrations. Exhibition catalog of the Nuremberg City Library, 99/1992, pp. 4–6
• Alexeij Tschernichow: The "Golden Ring of Russia". Anatoly Kalashnikov's wood engravings of historical monuments. In: Bookplate art and commercial graphics. 1986 yearbook

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