Alexander deineka biography

Life and career.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka was a Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century.
Alexander Deineka experimented with modernism in his young years, before later becoming one of the cornerstones of Socialist Realism.

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Aleksandr Deyneka was a Russian artist who was born in 1899.

How much does an Aleksandr Deyneka cost?

Aleksandr Deyneka's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 209 USD to 3,827,010 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Aleksandr Deyneka's most expensive painting?

Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,827,010 USD for Heroes of the First Five-Year Plan, sold at MacDougall's in 2017.

Where can I see Aleksandr Deyneka's works?

Their work will be on exhibit at The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg on February 20, 2025. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The State Russian Museum have featured Aleksandr Deyneka's work in the past.

Aleksandr Deyneka in the news

Aleksandr Deyneka has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, JSTOR Daily and New East Digital Archive. The most recent article is “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s” written for ARTFORUM in December 2024. The artist died in 1969.

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Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (May 8 (20), 1899, Kursk - June 12, 1969, Moscow) - artist, known primarily as the creator of the cycle of works about happy Soviet people involved in sports and joyfully working in factories, plants and mines. But Deineka is not that simple. After all, to all this, he is also an artist, who in this 21st century is called a modern-day modernist.
Features of the artist Alexander Deineka: posterity, monumentality; synthesis of genres (poster, graphics, easel paintings, monumental paintings), sometimes in one piece; joyful, optimistic image of the Soviet reality; enthusiasm for the topic of sport, the image of strong, sporting Soviet people, competitions, relay races; expression of power, energy, power in any work; asexuality of models, lack of individuality portrayed, typing.
Famous paintings by Alexander Deineka: "Downed ace", "Future pilots", "Defense of Sevastopol".

Most often, Alexander Deineke is spoken of as the creator of the image of a "happy Soviet person." Meanwhile, this is not the whole Deineka. No, no, we will not write it to dissidents,

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Deineka was born in Kursk and studied at Kharkov College, and between 1918 and 1920 he was swept up in the excitement of the Revolution, decorating promotional trains, designing for the Red Army Theatre and circulating pamphlets, and he joined the Red Army in Kursk. In 1920, he left for Moscow and attended VKhUTEMAS. He was active in the new culture scene and met Vladimir Makovsky whose poetry had made a profound impact on the young painter. In 1925 he was one of the founders of the Society of Easel Paintings (OST), a group of young artists uniting to form a new art, and in 1928 he became a member of Oktyabr.
Deineka´s talent was officially recognised many times by the state; he became a National Artist of the Soviet Union in 1936, earned the title of Professor in 1940, was an official member of Academy of Arts in 1947 and vice-president of the Acadamy from 1962-1966, and he was awarded Order of Lenin in 1964 for his mosaics and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Deineka helped shape and define contemporary art after the Revolution. Sport, work, industry and aviation were favou