Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lubimov was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, professor of Repin Institute of Arts and Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Industry, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of founder and the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings and satirical drawings.

Born in Paltsevo, Kursk pr., 1879.  Studied at SHTIGLITS TECHNICAL DRAWING COLLEGE 1895-98, Moscow COLLEGE OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE and Drawing School of OPKH; Imperial ACADEMY OF ARTS 1901 (02?)-09.  Active in St. Petersburg; Kharkov (Ukraine) 1912-19; St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad (spent some time in Frunze, Kirgizia, and Transcaucasus).  Member of COMRADESHIP OF INDEPENDENTS from 1910 (founder member); AKHR/R 1928-32.  Exhibited with AKHRR 1926 (ex. 8).  Important shows include 'Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army', Moscow, 1933; 'Twenty Years of the Workers' and Peaseants' Red Army', Moscow, 1938; 'INDUSTRY OF SOCIALISM', Moscow, 1939; 'All-Union Art Exhibition', Moscow, 1947.  Taught at Kharkov Art College 1910s; INSTITUTE OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1932; Leningrad HIGHER ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLEGE from 1944.  Also a graphic artist.  Died in Leningrad 1959

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