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Nikolay
Nikolaevich Ganzhalo

Russia • Saint Petersburg • 1942−1990

Biography and information

Ganzhalo Nikolai Nikolaevich (1942-1990) Nizhny Tagil - St. Petersburg. Graduated from LHU Serov. After graduation, he brilliantly taught drawing and poster art at this school, brought up a whole galaxy of talented artists - graphic artists and poster artists. He came up with the idea of his own recognizable poster school, by which the graduates of the school were immediately recognized by them. V.A.Serov (since 1991 named after N.K. Roerich). One of the distinctive features of the works of graduates of the school of that time was a special laconicism and metaphor, as well as local black backgrounds. Gifted, cheerful, he was among those who loved the poster and popularized it. Nikolai Nikolaevich's posters have always been an adornment of any exhibition of the Leningrad Union of Artists, the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and the Union of Artists of the USSR.