Valery
Georgievich TRAUGOT

Valery Traugot (June 23, 1936, Leningrad — October 5, 2009, St. Petersburg) — Russian book designer, member of art Union of G. A. V. Traugot (with his father George and brother Alexander). Member of the Union of artists of Russia (1965), Chairman of the Bureau of the graphics section of the Union of artists of St. Petersburg.
Valery Traugot was born in Leningrad in a family of artists Traugot George and Vera Yanova. His father's last name was written as Traugott, but he changed her writing in the late 1920-ies.
In 1941, throughout the great Patriotic war, together with other children — V. G. Petrov, G. A. and O. A. Honourable Prime Minister Vladimir Proscenium, K. I. Suvorova, O. A. Skripko, was evacuated to the village Emurtla Uporovskogo district of the Tyumen region. His first teacher was accompanying the children, wounded on the Leningrad front, the sculptor G. A. Schultz.
In 1945, Valery Traugot with these children is returned by Leningrad artists in Leningrad. Youth friendly ties bound VG Traugot with sculptor O. A. Skripko, architect E. P. Linzbach, artist-photographer F. Bergenstamm, sculptor M. V. Voitsekhovsky and so many other artists, scientists, poets, artists, musicians, publishers.
In 1948 he enrolled to study at secondary school of fine arts at the Academy of fine arts. Graduated from the school in 1955. Later, in the early 2000s, has written a memoir about the time of his studies in the school.
His main teacher V. G. Traugot always believed his father — George N. Traugot, noting that in his childhood years, his artistic training was also a friend of his father, the artist Vladimir Sterligov.
Since 1955, he continued his studies at the Moscow Surikov Institute (Department of sculpture).
In 1957 he transferred to the Leningrad higher art-industrial school im. Vera Mukhina, where he studied at the monumental Department at V. I. Ingal, graduated in (1960).
Began to participate in common exhibitions in 1955.
First solo exhibition "Tigers and cats" was held in Leningrad in 1959 — in the apartment of Vladimir Sterligov on Bolshoi Prospekt of the Petrograd side, d. 98.[5]
The first book illustrated by the Traugot brothers under the guidance of his father, and under the General signed by G. A. V. Traugot, was released in 1956.
In the 1950s he began with his brother to work in the sculpture of small forms. Together with A. G. Traugot they made a few works in China, released substantial circulation in the cooperative artel "Progress" (Leningrad oblast); the first model — porcelain figurine "Clown with dog" (painting in two variants — clown in a green and black suit). Model A. and V. Traugot produced replicable porcelain figurines depicting fairy tale characters: "Chipollino," "Geppetto and Pinocchio" and "Malvina with Artemon". When creating these works the sculptural part of the work, to a greater extent Alexander Traugot, painting did Valery Georgievich Traugot. Since the early 1960s, collaborated with the Lomonosov porcelain factory named after M. V. Lomonosov.
Worked mainly in book graphics, easel graphics. Addressed also to round the sculpture, created paintings.
In 1965 he entered the Leningrad Union of artists. From 1987 to 2009, until the end of life, headed the Bureau of the graphics section of the Union of artists, was his rule. Participant of numerous exhibitions.
From 1985 to 1993 chief artist of the publishing house "Detskaya Literatura". Since 2002 he headed the publishing house "Tsarskoye Selo".
In 2005 he received the title of Honored artist of the Russian Federation.
In 2009, he wrote memoirs about the artists with whom I was friends for life.
Died October 5, 2009 and is buried at the Serafimovskoe cemetery, beside father and mother.
Wife, actress Alla Andreeva, the son of actor George Traugot (1965-2010), granddaughter of Alexander Traugot.