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Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky 1926–2004

Maestro Yuri Temirkanov. Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky (1926–2004)

Maestro Yuri Temirkanov. Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky (1926–2004)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky (1926–2004) was born 12 August 1926 in Moscow, the USSR. In 1943, David Borisovich Borovsky entered the State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Repin of the USSR Art Academy. But three months later he had to leave the institute for front. It was the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945). After the end of the war, Borovsky came back to the institute, the graphics faculty. His teachers were L.I. Rudakov and V.M. Konashevich. In 1952 he graduated from the institute, diploma work – design and illustrations for the book of Maxim Gorky “The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin”. Borovsky Illustrated books for Goslitizdat, Detgiz, and the publishing house “Art”. And he became known after he had illustrated the novel “Torrents of Spring” by Ivan Turgenev. Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky – participant of All Union and International exhibitions of Soviet art in Poland, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.

Portrait of F. Engels. 1983. Auto-lithograph. Soviet artist David Borovsky (1926–2004)

Portrait of F. Engels. 1983. Auto-lithograph. Soviet artist David Borovsky (1926–2004)

In 1954, the State Tretyakov Gallery included a number of his works into the permanent exhibition of the Soviet Art. In 1990, the artist leaves graphics and became completely engaged in the painting technique. The main themes of his work are – the ballet, portrait, landscape, and childhood. Works by D. Borovsky kept in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian museum, as well as in private collections in Russia, Western Europe and America. Soviet artist Borovsky died in 2004 in Saint-Petersburg.

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich. Soviet graphic artist D. Borovsky (1926–2004)

Borovsky was versatile artist, but the most grateful memory he left for his illustrations to the Russian classics. Several generations were brought up on children’s books of Kuprin, Garin-Mikhailovsky, Korolenko, Chekhov with his drawings. The emergence since the early 1950s his illustrations to the works of Goncharov, and in particular the works of Turgenev was perceived by the audience as an event. Turgenev became for Borovsky the writer throughout his life, and the images of the characters of Turgenev before the mind’s eye of many readers appear “in disguise”, given to them by the artist. Now these drawings are in museums – the Tretyakov Gallery and Russian, as well as in many provincial museums and museum-city estates, connected with the life of Turgenev and valuing the memory of him – Orel, Spassky Lutovinovo, Tula, Klina, French Bougival.

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

A minute of music. 1988

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

All power to the Soviets, 1986 (lithograph)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Ballerina (Round Dance) 1967

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Big road. 1953

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Bow. 1953

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Breakfast, 1960

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Dance class, 1969

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Doctor with a tube 1960 (illustration to the book of A.Kuprin Girl and elephant)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Execution, 1953 (illustration for the story of Ilyenkov Big road)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Forest landscape, 1970s

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

From the series Leningrad workers, 1975

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Girl with buckets 1963 (from the series Electric power plant workers)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Hero of Socialist Labor Esek Eskanderovich, foreman of collective farm of Thalmann 1961

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Hero of Socialist Labor Muhanova, 1960

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

IIllustration for the novel of L. Molchanova ‘Lena’s Childhood’, 1954

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Illustration for the novel of L. Molchanova ‘Lena’s Childhood’, 1954

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

In combat, 1953 (illustration for the story by Ilyenkov Big road)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

In finishing shop. 1961

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Leader, 1970s (print)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Lenin in Petrograd. 1970s

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Lenin in Smolny, 1970s

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Lenin word, 1968

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Maestro Yevgeny Mravinsky

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Man’s portrait. 1962

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Meeting 1953 (illustration for the story by Ilyenkov Big road)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Mstislav Rostropovich

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Speech by VI Lenin on Red Square, 1973

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Still life with apples, 1981

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Svyatoslav Richter

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

The crane operator. 1963

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Turkmen kolkhoz woman. 1972

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

VI Lenin, 1988 (lithograph)

Soviet graphic artist David Borovsky

Woman – the crane operator. 1963

Coiler. 1981

Coiler. 1981