Victor Tsyplakov

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in Moscow in the family of a peasant called Grigory Tsyplakov (1915). Grew up in the village of Burminka in Ryazan Region (1920s). Studied under Grigory Shegal at the Moscow Technical College of Polygraphy (1932–36) and under Igor Grabar, Sergei Gerasimov and Vitaly Pochitalov at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1936–42). Member of the Union of Artists (from 1942). Postgraduate student of the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1942–44). Taught at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (from 1948), head of a personal studio (from 1957), professor of painting (1962). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1949, 1950). Sketched the funeral of Joseph Stalin (1953). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Died in Moscow and buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery (1986). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1939). Contributed to the All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists Dedicated to the Twentieth Anniversary of the Komsomol at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1939), Exhibition of Diploma Works of the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts and Ukrainian Branch in Moscow (1943), Exhibition of Works by Young Artists Dedicated to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Lenin Komsomol at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1943), Travelling Exhibition of Soviet Painting and Graphic Art at the Philharmonic Hall in Gorky and the Valerian Kuibyshev Palace of Culture in Kuibyshev (1946), Spring Exhibition of Works by Moscow Painters and Sculptors in the Moscow Fellowship of Artists at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1947), Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists for the 800th Anniversary of Moscow in shop windows on Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1947), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1947 at the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (1947), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Artists of Moscow and Leningrad in Kharkiv, Yasynuvata, Horlivka and Donbass (1948), All-Union Exhibition of Works by Young Artists Dedicated to the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Komsomol at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (1948), Soviet Painting and Graphic Art in Moscow (1948), The Image of Vladimir Lenin in Works by Soviet Artists at the Alexander Deineka Regional Picture Gallery in Kursk (1949), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Young Soviet Artists at the Georgian Picture Gallery in Tbilisi, Art Salon in Baku, Makhachkala, House of Engineering Technical Workers in Grozny and the Art Salon in Rostov-on-Don (1949), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1949 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1949), Exhibition of New Works Received and Acquired in 1945–48 at the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Art in Irkutsk (1949), Travelling Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art by Soviet Artists at the Abay Qunanbaiuli Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Almaty (1950), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1951 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1951–52), Spring Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists in the Moscow Fellowship of Artists at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1952), Exhibition of Works of Soviet Art from the Collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1953), Spring Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists in the Moscow Fellowship of Artists at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1953), Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1954), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Regional Museum of Local Studies in Tyumen, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts in Nizhny Tagil, Molotov Art Gallery in Molotov and Maxim Gorky Regional Museum of Art in Kirov (1954), Travelling Exhibition of Painting by Soviet Artists at the Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery in Chelyabinsk and Municipal Museum of Local Studies in Zlatoust (1954), Travelling Exhibition of Russian Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Art from the Reserves of the State Tretyakov Gallery at the Sverdlovsk Picture Gallery in Sverdlovsk (1954) and Chelyabinsk Regional Picture Gallery in Chelyabinsk (1954–55), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists from the Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery Dedicated to the Tercentenary of the Reunification of the Ukraine to Russia in Kiev (1954) and Kharkiv (1955), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Art and Works by Artists of the Theatre and Cinema of Moscow and Leningrad at Gorky Park in Moscow (1955), Exhibition of Painting and Graphic Art by Moscow Artists at Sokolniki Park in Moscow (1955), Fifty Years of the First Russian Revolution at the USSR Museum of the Revolution in Moscow (1955–56), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists at the Boris Kustodiev Regional Picture Gallery in Astrakhan (1955), Dagestani Philharmonic Hall in Makhachkala (1955), Vladimir Lenin Palace of Culture in Grozny (1955), Kosta Khetagkati Park of Culture in Ordzhonikidze (1955), Museum of Local Studies in Nalchik (1955), Vasily Blinov Club in Stavropole (1955) and Theatre of Musical Comedy in Pyatigorsk (1955–56), Exhibition of Works of Russian Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Art from the Reserves of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Dnepropetrovsk (1955), Sumy (1955), Uzhhorod (1956), Petrozavodsk (1956) and Kalinin (1956), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists 1917–56 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Moscow Artists at the Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow, State District Power Plant Club in Kemerovo, House of Culture in Novoorsk, Miner Club in Belovo and Technical House in Kiselyovsk (1956), Travelling Exhibition of Russian Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Art from the Reserves of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Krasnodar, Nalchik and Ordzhonikidze (1957), V Exhibition of Studies by Moscow Artists at the Art Foundation of the USSR in Moscow (1957), Forty Years of the Soviet Armed Forces at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1958), VII Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1985–86), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art in Helsinki (1950), Exhibition of Soviet Fine Art at the III World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin (1951), Exhibition of Works by Soviet Artists in Warsaw (1951), Contemporary Soviet Art: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Graphic Art Arranged by the Legation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for Exhibition in New Zealand in Wellington (1957), Christchurch (1957), Dunedin (1957), Invercargill (1958), Nelson (1958), Auckland (1958), Hamilton (1958), Tauranga (1958), Napier (1958), Wanganui (1958), Palmerston North (1958), Gisborne (1958) and Lower Hutt (1958), Expo ‘58 in Brussels (1958), one-man show in Moscow (1957) and posthumous exhibitions at the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Moscow (1986) and the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2007).