Johanson Boris

1893 - 1973, Moscow. Studied at MUZHVZ have to. Korovin, C. Malyutina (1913-18). Exhibitions since 1914. In 1922-32 - member AHRR-AChR, where the tradition of narrative painting peredvizhnicheskoy were promoting a new, Soviet life. Pictures Johansson in Soviet art were regarded as exemplary, perfectly consistent with the principles of socialist realism. Wrote panorama construction projects, portraits, created a kind of Soviet picturesque epic. Since 1962 - President of the Academy of Arts. Works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; SRM, St. Petersburg, Tula Art Museum, Samara Art Gallery, etc.. meetings.