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Dmitry
Zhilinsky

Russia • 1927−2015

Biography and information

A painter, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1987), Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1988), Dmitry Zhilinsky graduated from the Moscow Art Institute (1951), where he taught in 1951—1974. In 1974—1981, the painter was a professor and head of the department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Dmitry Zhilinsky painted decorative and colourful portraits, group portraits, landscapes, genre paintings with complex composition such as: Gymnasts of the USSR (1964), Under the Old Apple Tree (1969), Viola Player (1972), Evening in the South (1973), Winter in the South (1974), Sunday (1974), Portrait of T. Pavlova (1975), Portrait of P.L. and A.A. Kapitsa (1979), Young Family (1980), Alone (1983),1937 triptych (1986—1987), Portrait of the Artist
N. I. Zhilinskaya (1991) and other works.

Born in Sochi, in 1951 he graduated from the V. I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, where he studied under Nikolai Chernyshev, Semyon Chuikov, Pavel Korin, Aleksey Gritsai and Vasily Yakovlev. In 1951—1973, he taught at the V. I. Surikov Moscow
State Institute of Art. Dmitry Zhilinski painted portraits (in particular, group portraits) and genre compositions along the lines of a kind of Neo-Renaissance, built on stylistic and painting techniques of the late European Middle Age art and Ruthenian icon
painting. In 1966, he was awarded the silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Since 1974, he taught at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. DmitryZhilinsky was People’s Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the Repin State Prize of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Education. He lived in Moscow. His works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and in more than twenty regional museums of the former
USSR.