| Soviet
artist Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) – People’s Artist
of the RSFSR (1955), People’s Artist of the USSR (1963), winner of two Stalin
Prize of the second degree (1943, 1951), member of the CPSU (b) since 1945,
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949). A large part
of the artist’s work is devoted to the life and work of Lenin, Stalin, the
Great Patriotic War. He painted beautiful watercolors, children’s portraits.
Author of dozens of posters, many of which are marked with the “Grand Prix”
at the All-Union and international exhibitions of poster. After the war, the
newspaper “Pravda” sent their correspondent Zhukov to The Nuremberg trials,
where the International Military Tribunal tried the Nazi war criminals
(11/20/45 – 10/01/46). There he made more than 400 drawings. |
