Leonid
Fedorovich Golovanov

Schedule. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize.

Failed artist of the RSFSR (1954). He graduated from Moscow. VKHUTEIN (1928), student of D. Kardovsky. Since 1930 he worked in the field of Prince. ill. In 1943-57 he was an artist at the Grekov Studio of Military Artists. In the war and after the war he painted agitation polit. posters (“For the honor of the wife, for the lives of children!”, 1942; “We will save the Soviet children from the Germans!”, 1943; “Let's get to Berlin”, 1944; “Glory to the Red Army!”, 1946; “Youth to the stadiums”, 1947; "We were raised by Stalin", 1949 and others). The author of easel graphic works, book. ill. Laureate of Art. etc. (1951).

In 1904, he was born in Samara (Kuibyshev) into a peasant family.

After finishing secondary parish school, he worked as a draftsman, first in Samara, then in Samarkand.

At sixteen, he won a sketch competition for a large political panel commissioned by a local institution.

In 1921, he became a member of the local union of artists in Samarkand.

In 1922 he returned to Samara and entered the Archaeological and Ethnographic Courses at Samara University.

In 1923 he moved to Moscow and studied for five years in the studio of D.N. Kardovsky, - "the most authoritative master of the old Russian realistic tradition." See Sidorov A. "Leonid Fedorovich Golovanov. Master of the Soviet Poster." M. L., 1949. pp. 10.

In 1928, at the end of Kardovsky’s courses, he began working as a retoucher in The Peasant Journal, then an illustrator of mostly children's books (until 1947).

1929, for the first time participated in the exhibition of graduates of D. Kardovsky (together with the subsequently known poster artists Shmarinov D.A., Astapov I.S.).

In the 30s he participated in exhibitions as an artist.

In 1937-1941, he taught at the Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow City Art Institute.

After the outbreak of war, he began to deal with posters, joining VB Koretsky's organized poster studio for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society.

The first poster of L. Golovanov refers to 1942.

In 1942, he began work on the creation of posters, drawings on postcards produced by the State Publishing House "Art", and sketches of postage stamps.

In 1943, L. Golovanov was mobilized for service in the Red Army and then sent to the composition of the artists of the Grekov studio.

In 1946, L. Golovanov was awarded the Stalin Prize for his work in 1942-1945.

In 1954 he was awarded the title "Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR".

In 1980, he died in Moscow.