Alexander Deineka (1899–1969) was a Soviet painter, a muralist, a graphic artist, a sculptor, and a tutor. A. Deineka was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1945), a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1959) and a People's Artist of the USSR (1963).
In 1919-1920, he headed the art studio under the Kursk Political Department and of ROSTA Windows in Kursk. He was sent to Moscow to study at VKhUTEMAS (1920-1925). During those years, he created the first Soviet monumental historical-revolutionary painting The Defense of Petrograd (1928). In 1930, he painted posters Mechanizing Donbass, A Sportswoman; in 1931, he painted artworks different in their mood and themes On the Balcony, A Girl by the Window, The Interventionists’ Mercenary.
A new stage in the creative work of the artist began in 1932. The most significant work of this period is his painting The Mother (1932).
During the Great Patriotic War, he lived in Moscow and made political posters for the TASS Windows military-defense poster workshop. At that time, he created paintings The Outskirts of Moscow. November 1941 (1941), A Burnt Village (1942), Defense of Sevastopol (1942).
The significant works of the post-war time are the canvases The Relay Race on the Ring B (1947), Near the Sea. Fisherwomen (1956), In Sevastopol (1959), as well as mosaics for the pre-function of the assembly hall of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, a mosaic for the lounge of the Palace of Congresses in the Moscow Kremlin (1961). His mosaics decorate the Mayakovskaya (1938) and Novokuznetskaya metro stations (1943).
Alexander Deineka used to give classes at many Moscow universities. He was a Professor (1940), an Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1947), a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR.
The postage stamp provides an image of painting by A. Deineka Future Pilots (1938, Sakhalin Regional Art Museum); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of the painter against the background of his studio.
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Printing method |
Perforation |
Format of the stamp |
Format of the block |
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| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + bronzed paste + partial varnishing + security system |
Frame 12:12¼ |
39,5 × 39,5 mm |
105 × 80 mm |
17 thousand blocks |