Georgy
Anatolievich Pozhedaev

(1894 – 1971) was Born in Kursk, Russia. Since 1908 he took lessons in painting from J. Zielinskiego. From 1915 he studied at Moscow school of painting, Alexander Archipenko and N. Kasatkin, later St. Petersburg Academy of arts under Dmitry Kardovsky and G. Zaleman. In 1918 he began working as a set designer in Petrograd, created sketches of scenery and costumes for the ballet by M. Tcherepnin "Red mask" (1918 – 1919). In 1920 he emigrated to Romania. Worked at the National theatre in Bucharest. In Prague he performed sets for Anna Pavlova's company. In 1921 – 1924 he lived in Berlin and Vienna, worked in the Berlin cabaret J. southern "Blue bird". 1925 – in Paris, where he worked for the theater "die Fledermaus" M. Baliyeva, designed the Russian repertoire performances in Madrid and Barcelona. He painted landscapes of Paris and Provence, still lifes, created graphic portraits. From the 1920s, worked with book graphic art, illustrated the works of N. Gogol, M. Lermontov, F. Dostoevsky, A. Chekhov. Chevalier of the Legion of honour (1953). His personal exhibitions were held in Berlin (1922), Vienna (1924), Paris (1946). Works are in UM Berlin, Paris as well as in Russian and overseas private collections.