The Kursk Picture Gallery today possesses the most complete collection of the famous artist’s legacy formed by the master’s and his family gifts. This fact will make it possible to show the most complete and diverse retrospective of Alexander Deineka’s artwork. Many of the works will be displayed in Moscow for the first time.

Among the symbolic works of the exposition are Footballer (1932), Relay race (1947), Future pilots (1938), Young designer (1966), Self-portrait (1948) and others. The exhibition will present a large number of works unknown to the wide public: early paintings, sketches of illustrations, graphic pieces for journals, drawings and design projects. They reveal Deineka’s multi-faceted talent and his contribution to the development of Russian art.

The project entails several decades of the artist’s artwork – from the 1920s to the 1960s. Deineka’s interest in contemporaneity, labor, sport and engineering, his admiration for physical health, which he associated with the human spiritual perfection, enabled us to divide his works into eleven thematic sections.

Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (1899-1969) is a prominent figure of the Soviet epoch, a painter, graphic artist, teacher, sculptor and monumentalist. His works are full of energy, movement and care for an individual. Born in Kursk, Deineka was in touch with his hometown, where his relatives lived, all his life. Having invented his own style, he presents a rare example of the Soviet master who was always in line with the world artistic process.