Vladimir
Semenovich Lyubarov

Born in September 1944 in Moscow. My grandmother on my father's side before the revolution, contained a tavern in Kharkov, and his grandfather was an avid gambler. Parents, modest Soviet officials, shortly before the birth of her son moved to Moscow and settled in a communal apartment on the street Pinch, in Zamoskvorechye. As a child, Vladimir lyubarov drew battles, in which Soviet soldiers always fought the Nazis.

1955-1962. Studies at the Moscow secondary art school at the Institute. Surikov, where he prepared the future of realist artists. Despite the fact that this realism was called a socialist, lyubarov got a good education, he studied anatomy, perspective, met with classical art.

1962. Worked as a painter in the carpool.

1963-1969. He entered the Moscow polygraphic Institute in the faculty of art design of printed products, where he taught the famous Russian artist Andrei Goncharov.

The choice of profession was not only a love for books. Book graphics was a small oasis in a sea of Soviet culture, where rarely looked party censorship that allowed them to feel relatively independent.

1969-1990. Illustrated and designed over 100 books, with authors including: Erich the Raspe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Voltaire, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan PoE, Stanislaw LEM, Nikolai Gogol, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

1973-1984. The main artist of magazine "Chemistry and life".

1988. Together with Arkady Strugatsky and a group of writers organized the publishing house "the Text" the first private publishing house in Russia.

1991. Dramatically changed his life, moved to the village of Peremilovo in the Vladimir region. Began to be engaged in easel graphics, and then painting.

1993. Publisher Appletree Press (UK) published the book "Russian Proverbs" with illustrations by lyubarov. Through the year this book was reissued in the United States.

1994. The first solo exhibition of rustic works of Vladimir Lyubarova in Brussels.

1995. The main series of Lyubarova "Village Peremilovo" is almost finished. This is the world of the Russian hinterland, which combines folklore and modernity, irony and the grotesque, fantasy and reality. The series includes about 300 graphic works and paintings.

1997. A Series Of "Amsterdam".

1998. A Series Of "Pinch City".

1998-1999. The first work from the new series "Jewish happiness".

2005-2006. A Series Of "Flood".

1996-2007. Personal exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg.

2008. Personal exhibition in the State Tretyakov gallery.