Mikhail
Vasilyevich Kupriyanov

(1903, Tetyushi, Kazan lips. — 1992, Moscow).

Member of the Academy of arts of the USSR (1947), people's artist of the USSR (1958), laureate of the Lenin prize (1965), Hero of socialist labor (1973)

Graduated from the VKhUTEMAS-Vkhutein in 1929. (He studied with Professor N. Of kupreyanov, the drawing were P. Miturich, P. Lvov).

Together with the Krylov and N. A. Sokolov, from 1924 worked in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Literaturnaya Gazeta", "Pravda", magazines "Spotlight," Crocodile", "Onion", "Change", in the years of the great Patriotic War in the "Windows TASS".

Individual creativity Kupriyanova organically synthesized paintings and drawings — accurate energetic picture connected with true, noble and beautiful colors. Kupriyanov-landscape simplicity, conciseness and persuasiveness of visual techniques.

The works of M. Kupriyanov are in the collections of the state Tretyakov gallery, state Russian Museum and other Russian and foreign museums and private collections.