Arkady Lobanov

Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Vasily Lobanov in the town of Berezniki in Perm Province (1901). Attended school in the town of Solikamsk in Perm Province (late 1900s–early 1910s). Studied under Nicolai Fechin at Kazan School of Art (1915–18). Joined the Red Army in the Russian Civil War (1918–21). Moved to Moscow (1925) and attended the central art courses of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1926–28). Member of the Association of Artists of the Revolution and the Russian Association of Proletarian Artists (1931–32). Painted works of Socialist Realism (1930s–50s). Died in Moscow (1983). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1918), including Association of Artists of the Revolution in Moscow (1929, 1931), Art of the Third, Decisive Year of the Five-Year Plan at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1931–32), Posters in the Service of the Five-Year Plan at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1932), Artists of the RSFSR Over Fifteen Years (1917–32) at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1932–33), Soviet Art Exhibition in Philadelphia (1934), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists in Aid of the Public Fund for Assistance to the Children and Women of Heroic Spain in Vsekokhudozhnik at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1936) and Portraiture in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02).