Alexander
Dmitrievich Ketov

Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Theater artist, scene-designer, master of the propaganda poster, a painter, a Veteran blockade, worked in the field of theatrical decorative art for over 70 years. He worked in theatre of musical Comedy.

In the mid-30's came to Leningrad, where he worked in the Opera and ballet Theatre named after S. M. Kirov, where he was engaged in the decoration (restored costumes Chaliapin). I created portraits of the leading soloists.

Ket has designed more than 50 productions at the Opera Studio of the Leningrad Conservatory, the Opera and ballet Theatre named after S. M. Kirov (now Mariinsky theatre), the musical Comedy Theatre and on the stages of other theaters in the country. These include musical performances "Wedding in Malinovka", "Pericoli", "the bird Seller", "Silva", "the Violet of Montmartre", "Bat", "raskinulos more widely".

During world war II the artist was involved in the protective disguise of urban objects the besieged city, designed the performances in the Theater of musical Comedy, who worked in the besieged time. Kets worked as an orderly in the hospital (a hospital. Mechnikov), where both made drawings of anatomical plan, as well as posters such as "Kill the fascist!", portraits of Lenin and Stalin. The blockade created the posters hanging around Leningrad (a huge mural on Nevsky "death to the German invaders!" etc.) With the blockade of the artist there are just a lot of work. Some are made from life, on cardboard from packaging boxes

2005 - personal exhibition in the Great hall of the Exhibition center of the Saint-Petersburg Union of artists (dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the artist) At the jubilee exhibition Ketova (90th birthday) in the Great hall of the Exhibition center of the Saint-Petersburg Union of artists were represented by numerous landscapes of the jubilee - the Crimean coast of the Dnieper breadth, the churches of Staraya Ladoga, views of St. Petersburg and its famous suburbs, a series of vivid still lifes.