Basmanov Paul

1906,. Batalova Altai Territory - 1993, Leningrad. Studied in the Altai provincial art workshops (1920-22), in the Leningrad Technical School of Industrial Art (1923-27). Joined a group of artists (V. Lebedev, N. Tyrsa, AN Lapshin, V. Ermolaeva, V. Tatlin, etc.), which amounted to further the core of the future Detgiz (State Children's Publishing). Exhibitions since 1935. His work is adjacent to the flow of "painterly realism" which emerged in the Russian Soviet painting 1920. For the artist-philosopher is characterized by the influence of ancient fresco. Since 1946 he worked in publishing. Artworks Basmanova are in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum of. Pushkin, Moscow, RM, St. Petersburg, in private collections.