Biography and information
Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev (March 15, 1934, Balakhna — October 10, 1998, Moscow) — Russian painter, representative of "unofficial" art.
The grandson of the landscape painter, Mikhail Yakovlev (1880-1941), one of the founders of Russian impressionism. After the family moved in 1944 to Moscow, worked as a courier in a publishing house "Art", visited the Studio of Vasily Sitnikov. Since 1945, he observed, and periodically checked in to a psychiatric hospital. In Moscow, I met with the artists Mikhail Grobman (left entry in his diaries), Anatoly Zverev, poet Gennady Aygi (Yakovlev makes drawings for his poems, creates a portrait of the poet, 1966), composer and harpsichord player Andrey Volkonsky (his apartment is in a 1959 exhibition of works by Yakovlev), met with the Czech avant-garde theorist Jindrich Chalupecky. After 1983 has not abandoned mental hospital and almost completely blind.
