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Mikhail
Georgievich Abakumov

Russia • 1948−2010

Biography and information

Painter. Graduated from VGIK (1976). 1977-83 worked in the Creative Studio of the USSR art Academy. A. P. and S. P. Tkachev. The author ist. and genre canvases, landscapes, portraits, paintings, "Metallurg" (1974), "the Old factory" (1974), "Village Sanino" (1978), "On Shale" (1983), "Spring morning" (1996), etc.

Born in 1948 in Kolomna, Moscow region. People's artist of Russia. In 1968. he graduated from the Moscow art school. Kalinina. In 1977 – all-Union art faculty, Studio professors I. A. Shpinel and G. A. Myasnikova. In 1983, he worked in creative workshops Academy of arts under the guidance of academicians A. P. and S. P. Tkachev and A. M. Gritsai. Getting creative work since 1975. Member of the Union of artists of Russia since 1980. Honored artist of Russia since 1993. People's artist of Russia since 2001. In 2002 prisuzhdena Republican award named after Byalynitskogo - Birula. Academician of the International Informatization Academy since 1999. He was repeatedly elected a Board member of the MOOSKH, member of Bureau of section of painting of the MOOSKH, a member of the Commission on work with young artists of the MOOSKH. 1987-1993 Secretary of the Union of artists of Russia. Since 1993.- the Chairman of the arts Council of Kolomna's Union of artists. Since 1994 teaches in mgahi. V. I. Surikov. Associate Professor (2001). Participant of numerous all-Union, all-Russia, zonal, regional, municipal, international, foreign, academic and group art exhibitions. Since 1979 held more than thirty solo exhibitions in Moscow, St. – Petersburg, Kolomna, Vologda and also in several foreign countries. Party charity auction Sotheby'S (1998, 1999, 2000). Since 2000. participates in the annual charity auction Operation Smile in favor of sick children. Works are in state Tretyakov gallery, museums and galleries of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Serpukhov, Ryazan, Kirov, Vologda, Tambov, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Vyatka, Sarov, Zaraysk, Kolomna, Obninsk, in the headquarters of the ACEAN in Indonesia, in private collections in Germany, USA, South Korea, Italy, Spain, England, France, Poland etc. For merits in the field of fine arts were awarded with diplomas of the USSR Academy of arts (1975, 1987). In 1995 he was awarded a gold medal of Academy of Arts of Russia. He died in 2010.