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Vyacheslav
Frantsevich Zagonek

Russia • 1919−1994

Biography and information

Painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR, corresponding member of the Academy of the USSR.

 

Thesis in the CVC - "Spring on the farm", the rating is excellent. The training took place at the faculty of painting, qualification of the artist of painting was awarded.

People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1988).

 

In 1950, Vyacheslav Zagonek graduated from the I.E. Repin LIZHA, workshop of Boris Johanson.

 

He studied with Mikhail Bernstein, Alexander Zaitsev, Heinrich Pavlovsky, Semyon Abugov, Gleb Savinov.

 

Participant of exhibitions since 1939. Member of LOSH since 1950.

 

He painted landscapes, genre and historical compositions, portraits.

 

Personal exhibitions in Leningrad (1966, 1990), Moscow (1966).

 

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963). Winner of the silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1965).

 

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968). Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1976).

 

Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after I. E. Repin (1977). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979).

 

The works of Vyacheslav ZAGONEK are in the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in numerous museums and private collections in Russia, China, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries.