Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939). ‘Lenin and demonstration’. 1919. The State Historical Museum. Soviet artists painting Lenin
Leniniana – Soviet artists painting Lenin
Leniniana – the name for works of art and literature, dedicated to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Anatoly Lunacharsky pointed out that Leniniana captured the image of the historical figure of world scale. On the creation of the image of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin worked many masters of the fine arts of the USSR. One of the first artists of this genre was Isaak Brodsky (1883-1939) – Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist, teacher and organizer of art education, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1932), one of the main representatives of the realist movement in Soviet art of 1930-ies, the author of an extensive pictorial Leniniana. Starting from 1917 the image of Lenin entered into works of arts and crafts, especially in the works of the masters of the Union republics of the USSR.
A. Rylov. Lenin in Razliv. Oil on canvas, 1934. State Russian Museum
Living in Razliv, Lenin continued to guide the work of the party on the preparation of the socialist revolution. He was brought here all the newspapers published in the capital. Members of the Party Central Committee – Stalin, Dzerzhinsky, Sverdlov and other party workers visited him. There he wrote a number of articles on the political situation in the country, which formed the basis of decisions of the VI Congress of the Bolshevik Party, which took place in the days when Lenin was hiding in Razliv. The Congress party has determined the course of an armed uprising. The situation in the area of Razliv became unsafe, were seen detectives, searching for Lenin. In addition, the rains began, it became colder. And 8 August, Vladimir Ilyich went to Finland.
Leniniana – Soviet artists painting Lenin
A. Samokhvalov. V.I. Lenin speaking in front of soldiers. 1934
A. Zhabsky (Moscow) Living Word of Ilyich Tempera. 1977
B. Ioganson (1893-1973), Sokolov (1915-2013), D. Tegin (1914-1988), N. Chebakov (1916-1968), N. Faydysh-Krandievskaya (1923). Speech by Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol. 1950 oil on canvas (detail)
Evgeny Adolfovich Kibrik (born 1906). Victory. 1971. Oil
G.S. Mosin, M . Brusilovsky. 1918
Igor Grabar (1871-1960) ‘V. Lenin at a direct line ‘, 1927-1933
IM Rukavishnikov (Moscow). Lenin. 1981. Metal
Konstantin Rozhdestvensky (born 1906). Lenin hall. The Soviet pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, ‘Expo 70’ (co-author Boris Rodionov). 1968
Konstantin Rozhdestvensky (born 1906). Lenin hall. The Soviet pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, ‘Expo 70’ (co-author Boris Rodionov). 1968
Labas Alexander Abramovich (1900-1983) ‘Lenin’s arrival in Petrograd’ from the series ‘October’. 1930
N. Baskakov (1918-1983). Lenin in the Kremlin. 1960
Peter V. Vasilyev (1899-1975) ‘V. Lenin and Stalin on the conversation ‘, 1940
Speech by Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol. 1950 oil on canvas
Speech of Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol. 1950 oil on canvas, fragment
V. Ivanov. Lenin at subbotnik in the Kremlin
VF Zhemerikin (Gorky). The first anniversary of the October Revolution. 1981. detail
VF Zhemerikin (Gorky). The first anniversary of the October Revolution. 1981. Oil on canvas
Vladimir Arlashin. ‘Peace’ poster. 1975
Yakub Annanurov (born 1916). Lenin among the Twentieth Congress delegates. 1969
Isaac Brodsky (1884-1939). Speech by Lenin before the Red Army, sent to the Polish front May 5, 1920. 1933. Oil on canvas. The Central Lenin Museum
VG Tsyplakov. (1915-1986), Lenin. 1947. Oil on canvas. The Central Lenin Museum
A. Plastov. Lenin in Razliv. Oil. 1948. The State Russian Museum
I. Brodsky. Lenin in Smolny. Oil. 1930
A. Gerasimov. Lenin on a tribune
I. Brodsky. Lenin in Smolny
To the Universe
P. Staronosov. Illustration for the book The Life of Lenin ‘. Woodcut. 1935
Abram Veksler. Demonstration on Red square. 1970s
Boris Gorbunov. Lenin passing by revolutionaries on Red square. 1970s
Evgeny Levin. Lenin in Smolny. 1978. Oil on canvas
K.A. Krylov. Meeting in Smolny. 1966
L. Kotlyarov. Ulyanov family. Oil. 1970
Nikolai Volodin (1913 – 1986). VI Lenin in Razliv. canvas, oil. 1966
V. Zamkov. With Lenin
Vsevolod Medvedev (1912-1985). Lenin reading a newspaper ‘Pravda’. Oil on canvas. 1965
Alexandr Nazarenko. Lenin and Gorky on Capri. 1983. Oil on canvas
Ivan Semyonovich Petrov (1923). Speech of Lenin in the village. 1986
Lidiya Ponomareva (1906). Lenin and komsomol members. 1970
Lyubov Pribluda (1929). Lenin in October. 1973
Paramonov Alexandr Nikitich (1874-1949). Lenin on the hunt. 1927
Yakov Ocheretko (1916). Meeting of Lenin and farmers. 1967
Evgeny Samusev. Lenin and Krupskaya listening to the piano. 1968-1970
Lev Samoilov (1912 – 1988). Lenin and children. canvas, oil. 1957
A.I. Strakhov. Ulyanov (Lenin). Poster. 1924
Leonid Titarchuk. Conversation between Lenin and delegates. 1981
Oksana Dmitrievna Sokolovskaya (1917). Lenin and Krupskaya with children. 1967
Pavel Antonovich Skorubsky (1924). Lenin with revolutionaries. 1980s
Yuri Ananiev (1920-2005). Young Lenin. 1989
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin ‘Portrait of V.I. Lenin’
Nikolay Velicko. Lenin on Red Square
Red Saturday. 1982. Georgy Petrovich Kichigin
Trip to the village. 1960. Vitaly Yakovlevich Shepetovsky (1927-1988)
Vasily Svarog. Lenin and Stalin in Gorki in 1923
With Ilyich. 1981. Alexei Alexandrovich Shirokov (1923 – 1985)
Ivan Golitsyn (1916-1984). Lenin among peasants. 1970
Drawing by A. Reznichenko. A boy’s secret
E. Troshev. To Shushenskoye. 1964
All images – scanned
from Soviet era magazines and illustrated albums