Petrov Vladimir

Biography

Vladimir Mitrofanovich Petrov was born in 1920 in Astrakhan. Since the age of ten, remained without parents, he was raised at children’s house. From 1934 to 1939 he studied at the Astrakhan art school, with Pavel Vlasov as a teacher, who in his days taught renowned Russian artists such as Kustodiev, Feshin, Goruishkin-Sorokopudov. In 1939 successfully graduated and was directed to small town Enotaevsk, as a teacher of painting and drawing.
But the destiny disposed in its own way - the Second World War began, and his education of painting was interrupted.In 1939 he was mobilized to the Red Army as an ordinary soldier and participated in the war against fascist Germany 1941-1945. He fought in Belorussia, Ukraine, Stalingrad and Kursk.The victory. He met it in Lithuania, in Shyaulyai, being treated in a hospital after a heavy wound. In the same year 1945 he was demobilized and joined the Latvian academy of Fine arts in Riga. His teachers were Professors Conrad Ubans, Arius Skride, Leo Svemp, John Liepina, artists Edward Kalninsh and Nicholas Breyksh.
In 1949 successfully finished the course of Academy. He received a diploma with honors. The graduation picture "Restore Stalingrad" and the author's photo, was published in the popular magazine "Ogoniok" № 27 1949.
In the same year Vladimir Petrov comes to Uzbekistan. The new country has gained the artist’s heart by the blue peaks of Chimgan's Mountain, with the freshness of green fields and gardens of the Fergana valley, and the unique beauty of ancient monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. During 37 years Petrov V. M. taught drawing, painting and composition in Tashkent art school. Since 1949, Vladimir M. Petrov's picturesque works have been represented at all Republican exhibitions, in Tashkent, at the all exhibitions of national art in Moscow, Riga, Kiev, Astrakhan and other cities. In Tashkent in 1971, 1990 and 1997 the personal exhibitions of the artist were conducted. He was the participant of all group exhibitions of veterans of "Great Patriotic War" which were carried out in Uzbekistan. The "Gekosso" gallery exhibited pictures of the artist in Japan in 1977 and in 1980. The Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, Great Britain, has presented his works on the exhibition "The Soviet Socialist realism in painting" in 1992. Pictures of Vladimir Petrov were displayed on the exhibition “Russian and Soviet realism in "Overland Gallery" USA in 1993.There are a lot of works of the artist in private collections of the citizens of Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy, Israel and Canada. Pictures of Vladimir Petrov are bought by museums of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, St.-Petersburg and Moscow. The artist died in Tashkent in 1997.