Eduard Bragovsky

Painter, graphic artist. Husband of painter Natalia Lyubimova (born 1924), father of artists Anna Bragovskaya (born 1957) and Pyotr Bragovsky (born 1965), father-in-law of artists Vladimir Sevastianov (born 1952) and Lada Mnatsakanian (born 1966). Born in Tiflis (renamed Tbilisi in 1936) to professional soldier Georgy Bragovsky and dentist and carpet-weaver Susanna Diatian (1923). Moved with his family to the Arbat in Moscow (1927), where he attended children’s art studio (1935–39) and collaborated with the Young Artist magazine (1936–39). Moved to Lithuania after his father was appointed a commissar in the army (1940). Evacuated after the German invasion (1941), joined the partisans (1942–43) and the Red Army (1943–46). Studied under Antanas Gudaitis at the Vilnius Institute of Art (1946–47) and under Pyotr Kotov, Victor Tsyplakov, Vitaly Pochitalov, Pavel Malkov and Vasily Nechitailo at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts/Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1947–53). Member of the Union of Artists (from 1955, chairman of the painting section and board member of the Moscow branch). Lived and worked in Tarusa (from 1948), where he collaborated with Ivan Sorokin (1975–76). Visited the Crimea (1956). Member of the Moscow Barbizon group working at the Dmitry Kardovsky House of Creativity in Pereyaslavl-Zalessky (late 1950s–early 1960s) and the House of Creativity in Staraya Ladoga (1960s). Decorated pavilions at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow (1950s), painted landscapes, portraits and still-lifes (1950s–90s) and monumental panels (1980s). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1989), People’s Artist of Russia (2010). Winner of the State Prize of Russia (2000) and gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003). Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2001), full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007). Died in Moscow (2010). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1954). Contributed to the Exhibition of Works by Young Moscow Artists in the House of the Artist at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1954), Second Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow and Moscow Region in the House of the Artist and the Union of Artists at 20 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1956), Third Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow and Moscow Region at the Union of Artists in Moscow (1957), Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of the Soviet Union for the VI World Festival of Youth and Students at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1957), Fourth Exhibition of Works by Young Artists of Moscow at the House of the Artist, House of the Union of Artists of the USSR and Gorky Park in Moscow (1958), I Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1960), First Intersectional Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1967), USSR is Our Motherland in Moscow, Chi?in?u, Kiev, Odessa and Baku (1972), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists Dedicated to the XXV Communist Party Congress in Moscow (1975), Glory to Labour! All-Union Art Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1976), Self-Portraiture in Russian and Soviet Art at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1977), Eduard Bragovsky, Albert Papikian, Ivan Sorokin and Andrei Surovtsev: Retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1996), Impressionism in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000), Portraiture in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), The Four Seasons: Landscapes in Russia (19th–20th Centuries) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006–07), Jubilee Exhibition Dedicated to the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Moscow Branch of the Union of Artists at the Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2007), Russian Impressionism: On the Edge of Soviet Art at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis (2008), “No One is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten”: Exhibition Dedicated to the 65th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in the Moscow House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (2010) and one-man shows in Leningrad (1971), Moscow (1971, 1982, 1989, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2011), Vologda (1972, 2011), Florida (1991) and Spain (1992).