Book illustrator Alexei Laptev (1905-1965). Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet Illustrations by Alexey Laptev

Book illustrator Alexei Laptev (1905-1965). Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet Illustrations by Alexey Laptev
Book illustrator Alexei Laptev (1905-1965). Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet Illustrations by Alexey Laptev
23.06.2020

Graphic artist, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He graduated from high school in Moscow. Studied in Moscow: at the school-studio of F. I. Rerberg (1923–1924); Testing and preparatory department of Vkhutemas (1924); Vkhutemase - Vhuteine ​​(1924–1930), first at the textile faculty, then at the graphic faculty of DA Shcherbinovsky, PI Lvov (drawing) and NN Kupreyanov (lithography). In the 1920s, he was a member of the Vkhutemas volleyball team.
Lived in Moscow. He was engaged in easel and book graphics. He was fluent in all the technical "arsenal" of drawing: he used pressed charcoal, sauce, sanguine, ink, watercolor, pastel, chalk and other materials.
From 1925 he worked as an illustrator in magazines; painted for the Pioneer magazine (1927–1929). In 1929 he began to work in the field of book graphics ("The first pasture" by G. Zamchalov). In the 1930s-60s he collaborated in various Moscow publishing houses: GIZ, Detgiz, Goslitizdat, Molodaya Gvardiya, Soviet Graphic, Soviet Artist, Children's Literature and others. Illustrated textbooks commissioned by Uchpedgiz.
1929 poster.
He performed portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre compositions; created several autolithographs on the historical and revolutionary theme. In 1935, on the instructions of the organizing committee of the All-Union Exhibition "Industry of Socialism" he made a trip to the Urals; the result was a series of drawings "Factories of Krasnouralsk" (1936). In 1937–1939 and 1940 he went on creative business trips to collective farm villages; created a series of drawings "Collective farms of Ukraine" and "Salsk steppes". In 1941 he was sent to the Caspian Sea, where he made a series of sketches depicting fishing villages and steppe landscapes ("Caspian Suite", "Near Astrakhan").
During the Great Patriotic War he remained in Moscow. A member of the graphic team of the Moscow Union of Artists, which published the satirical lithographed posters "Windows of the Moscow Union of Artists", propaganda leaflets. Collaborated in "Windows TASS" and the publishing house "Art", worked on posters, postcards, leaflets. He traveled to the Kalinin and Southwestern fronts; created a cycle of front-line drawings (1942–1943), for which in 1944 he was awarded the 1st degree diploma of the Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
In the postwar years, he was one of the initiators of the movement for the preservation of ancient monuments, paraded over the youth club "Rodina", which helped in the protection of cultural monuments. Sketched monuments of ancient Russian architecture for the proposed exhibition "Masterpieces of Russian Architecture"
(published in the album "Monuments of Old Russian architecture in the drawings of A.M. Laptev" M., 1969)

He created cycles of drawings "Uglich", "Collective Farm Series" (1947), portraits of notable workers in Moscow factories (1958), travels in Czechoslovakia (1958) and Italy (1956-1962).
He worked in small-scale sculpture. He made wooden toys ("Foal", "Karand'Ash", both - 1948). In the early 1950s, he became interested in sculpture from roots ("Sancho Panza and the Donkey", "Don Quixote")
In 1948-1954 he created an extensive cycle of illustrations for the novel by MA Sholokhov Virgin Soil Upturned, for which he undertook a trip to the Don (several editions, one of them: Sholokhov MA Collected Works. M .: Molodaya Gvardiya. 1956– 1960, vol. 6-7). At the end of his life he worked on a series of illustrations for N. Nekrasov's poem "Who Lives Well in Russia" (not completed, published - 1971).
Since 1926 - participant of exhibitions (1st exhibition of the "Association of Graphic Artists" in Moscow). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Exhibited at exhibitions: an exhibition-review of works by young artists (1936), works of Moscow artists (1939, 1942, 1947), drawings, illustrations and posters (1940), painting, graphics, sculpture (1941), “The Red Army in the fight against the German -fascist invaders "(1943)," The Heroic Defense of Moscow in 1941-1942 "(1944), All-Union Art Exhibition (1946)," 30 Years of the Soviet Armed Forces. 1918-1948 "(1948), the 1st All-Union exhibition of graphics and posters (1950), books and book graphics by Detgiz (1951)," N.V. Gogol in the works of Soviet artists "(1952) in Moscow; "Military Valor of the Russian People" in Sverdlovsk (1943) and others. Exhibitor of numerous traveling exhibitions of Soviet art in the union republics and cities of the RSFSR. Participant of a number of foreign exhibitions: the international exhibition "The Art of the Book" in Paris and Lyon (1931-1932), "Contemporary Art of the USSR" in San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York (1933), "Soviet Graphics" in Bucharest, Helsinki , Prague, Budapest (1950), Soviet fine arts in Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay (1952), "Soviet and classical Russian art" in Berlin, Dresden, Halle, Budapest (1953-1954), XXVIII International Biennale in Venice (1956) ... Held personal exhibitions in Moscow (1940, 1949).
Author of tutorials on drawing: "How to draw a horse" (Moscow, 1953), "Pen drawing" (Moscow, 1962).
The publication "Aleksey Mikhailovich Laptev" (series "Masters of Soviet Art"; Moscow, 1951) is dedicated to the artist's work.

Author of memoirs: "On the way ...: notes of an artist" (M., 1972)
A memorial exhibition of Laptev's works was organized in 1966 in Moscow.
Creativity is presented in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the State Russian Museum and others.
Tver Regional Picture Gallery "Palace in the city of Kalinin, built in the 18th century by the architect Kazakov" 1942.


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* Soviet land. Literary and artistic monthly magazine №2. M. 1929 64c cover, enlarged. Cover artist M. Shegal. Rice. in the text A. Laptev, G. Schegal, Khrapovsky.
*Ruderman M. Relay. Rice. and layout A. Laptev M.-L. Giz 1930 16 with lithographed cover. 17 * 22 cm.vol. 50,000 copies. 20k. The agitational texts of the poems are adjacent to the close-minded verses of Marshak and Natan Vengrov. Constructivist in spirit, the construction of the layout and type techniques of Alexei Laptev with complete interpenetration of text and illustrations solves the agitation task set by the social order of the Five-Year Plan as efficiently as possible)
* Ruderman M. Relay. Rice. A. Laptev Ed. 2nd. M. Mol.guardia 1931 16s t. 30,000 copies. 20k.
* Mayakovsky V.V. What is good and what is bad. Rice. A. Lapteva M. Guise 1930. 15s t. 100,000 copies. 12k.
http://www.book-illustration.ru/read-chitat-detskie-knigi.html
* Guryan O. All together. Rice. color A. Lapteva M.-L. Giz 1930 11c. 11x13cm t. 75000 copies 6k.
* Zach Sophia. The pilot and the cat. Rice. A. Lapteva Ed. 2nd. M. Guise 1930 15s. t. 50,000 copies. 12k.
http://rgdbarch.elpub.ru:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22855#page/0/mode/2up
* Kovalensky A. Ay, ay, get it out quickly. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Giz 1930 16s t. 75,000 copies 12k.
* Barto A. About the war. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Giz 1930 15s t. 75,000 copies 12k.
* Barto A. About the war. Rice. A. Laptev Ed. 2nd. M. Guise 1930 15s t. 75,000 copies 12k.
* Fedorchenko Sophia. In the woods. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Giz 1930 16s t. 75,000 copies 12k.
* Chumachenko A. City in the rain. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. State from 1930 88s
http://rgdbarch.elpub.ru:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22866#page/0/mode/2up
* Aleksandrova Z. Collective farm spring: Poem. Rice. A. Lapteva M. Mol. Guard 1932. 14s t. 50,000 copies. 45k.
*May. The collection was prepared and designed by the end-to-end shock brigade of the children's sector of the Mol.gvardiya publishing house. Color ill. S. Boim, B. Sukhanov, A. Laptev, D. Moor, K. Kuznetsov M. OGIZ Mol.Gvardiya 1932. 12s (For preschool age)
*Murzilka number 12 December 1937 Organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. M. Detgiz 1937 24s cover, enz. Answer: editor A.N. Dudin. Cover: fig. V. Zhitenev Christmas tree on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. - N. Sakonskaya December 12. Poetry. Rice. A. Lapteva (Poems about the first elections to the Supreme Soviet, after the adoption of the new Constitution in 1936) - O. Ivanenko Inventor. Story. Rice. L. Radina - S. Marshak Twenty years old. Rice. E. Burgunker - The Tale of the Goby. Ukrainian fairy tale. Rice. A. Laptev - L. Voronkova Galilei. Rice. Vakidin - In memory of Comrade Kirov. - Golden apples. The myth of Hercules. Rice. S. Prusova - E. Tarakhovskaya Ten years. Poetry. Rice. V. Zhitenev - Murzilkina newspaper (Verses of 11-year-old Vera Mindel to Stalin.) - I. Rakhtanov The Battle of the Ice. - Back cover: Murzilka at the North Pole. Fig. L. Smekhov
*Ivanenko Oksana. Forest fairy tales. Picture b / w A. Laptev. M.-L. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1937. 60s binding, enlarged. square.
* Durov V. My animals. ill. A. Lapteva Detizdat M.-L. Central Committee VLKM 1937 178s binding, reduced.

* Barto A. Poems. rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1937. 66c binding, regular.
*Murzilka number 1 January 1938 M. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1938. 24s cover, enz. Cover: V. Zhitenev Climbing Lenin Peak. - Editorial: To be like Lenin. (Mainly about Stalin ..) - V. Safonov Lenin Museum. Engravings by M. Polyakov - N. Zabila House over the lake. rice. E. Burgunker - Stories about Lenin, from the words of the workers of the state farm of the village of Gorki Leninskiye. Rice. A. Laptev Ilyich in the hills. Ilyich and the fisherman. As the old man repaired the stove for Lenin. How Ilyich learned to weave baskets. Chief employee.- Agnia Barto Letter. Lolita. Rice. R. Barto - J. Taits Story. Rice. G. Corwin Fig. L. Smekhova Winter activities in the Murzilkin zoo. - Murzilkina newspaper. Poems of ten-year-old Inna Lisichkina about Lenin and Stalin. - L. Alpatov Orlan. Rice. G. Tuganov- Back cover: This is what our guys see in their dreams. Rice. L. Smekhov
* Murzilka number 7 July 1938. M. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1938. 24s cover, enz. Cover: A. Laptev On the collective farm. - M. Gorky Pepe. rice. B. Dekhtereva - Soloveyushka. Children's song. - I. Kipnis About the boy Berele. Per. from Hebrew. Rice. E. Burgunker - E. Tarakhovskaya 16 parrots. Rice. M.Khrapkovsky - N.Naydenova How I scared the bear. Rice. N. Radlova - N. Artyukhova Sasha the teaser. rice. E. Endrikson - M. Andrievskaya Adventure of three nouns. A grammatical task. Rice. L. Smekhova - Murzilkina's newspaper. - A sly man. Russian folktale. Rice. M. Khrapkovsky - M. Andrievskaya Murzilka caught a thief. Rice. M. Khrapkovsky - M. Pustynin Murzilka the fisherman. Rice. N. Radlova
* Murzilka number 8 August 1938. M. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1938. 24s enz. cover: N. Mashkova Harvesting. - Misha Stelmakh to the Leader ... Shine our Stalin with bright glory ... - N. Grigoriev A case in the mountains. Rice. A. Izakson - Letter to Lebedev-Kumach from Lelia Genina. - A song about Mishka. - A.Ai I will join the cavalry. Poetry. Rice. A. Lapteva - J. Taits Rope. Rice. N. Tolstova - My native country is wide. Rice. V. Zhitneva U-turn. - Z. Alexandrova Dozor. Rice. M. Mikhaelis - Murzilkina newspaper. N. Plavilshchikov Do you know? - V. Lifshits Rybolov. Rice. N. Radlova - Murzilka - rope dancer. Rice. M. Khrapkovsky
* Zhitkov B. Stories. Series: School Library. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Detizdat 1938 48c binding, normal.
*Happy childhood. Collection of stories and poems. M.-L. DetLit 1938 140s binding, enlarged. To the XXth anniversary of the Komsomol. V. Gusev, K. Paustovsky, R. Fraerman, G. Zamchalov, L. Kassil, L. Kvitko, S. Marshak, Dzhambul, A. Written, E. Blaginina, A. Barto, N. Sakonskaya, N. Kaurichev, Ya.Tayts, S. Hecht, S. Mikhalkov, L. Kvitko, G. Ryklin, G. Kubansky, L. Sobolev. With b / w V. Shcheglova, E. Afonasyeva, V. Ermolov, D. Shmarinov, K. Rotov, A. Laptev, V. Ladyagina. With a colored frontispiece "Stalin surrounded by children", thin. color endpapers.
* Shatilov B. In the camp. Hood. A. Laptev M. DetLit 1938 48c binding, enlarged.
*Barto Agnia. Poetry. b / w rice. A. Laptev. M.-L. Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol 1939. 64c standard binding.

* Laptev A. Paint. Pictures for coloring with verses. For preschool. age. Il. and the text of A. Laptev M. Soviet schedule 1943.
* Laptev A. Paint! Pictures for coloring with verses. For preschool. age. M. Soyuzpechat 1944
* Krylov I.A. Fables. Fig. A. Kanevsky, A. Laptev, G. Echeistov M. GIKHL 1944. 224s t. 100,000 copies binding, ordinary.
*Riddles. For the younger ones. age. Il. A. Laptev M. Vsekohudozhnik 1945 (6th type. OGIZ)
* Trutneva E. Zoo. Rice. A. Laptev. M. Soviet schedule 1945. 16s t. 500,000 copies. 60k.
* Gernet N. Paint! Rice. A. Laptev. M.-L. Detgiz 1945 24s t. 50,000 copies. 2p.50k. Before the title author: A. Laptev. Text by N. Gernet.
* Marshak S. Where did the sparrow dine? Fig. A. Laptev. M. Vsekohudozhnik 1946 16s t. 500,000 copies. 1r.
* Laptev A. Funny Pictures. Rice. and the text by A. Laptev. M. Soviet graphic 1947. 12s cover, enz.
* Laptev A. Gramophone Fig. and the text of A. Laptev M. Soviet schedule 1947. 12s t. 25,000 copies 5r.
* Laptev A. Gramophone Fig. and the text of A. Laptev M. Soviet schedule 1947. 10s t. 100,000 copies 15 rub.
* Mikhalkov S. Poems for children. Detgiz 1947 184s binding, enz. Cover, title and short titles by V. Konashevich Contents: Song of the pioneers of the Soviet Union. Rice. A. Ermolaeva - Fairy for Children. Conversation with my son. Rice. V.Vysotsky Map. A ten year old man. Komsomol ticket. Party ticket. Red Army soldier Petrov. Three comrades. Honorary Passenger. Package. My friend. The native side. School. Svetlana. Cheerful tourist. Find. About mimosa. About catfish. If. Ships. Song of friends. Drawing. What do you have? On New Year's Eve. Rice. A. Ermolaeva - Border. Arrival of the hero. Anti-aircraft gunners. Danila Kuzmich. Sheep. Rice. V. Shcheglova - A good person. Cold shoemaker. Watch. One rhyme. Rice. V. Konovalova Cyclist. Rice. I. Semenova - Uncle Styopa. Thomas. Rice. I. Shabanova - Eccentrics. About Janek. (From Yu. Tuwim) Fig. I. Semenova My friend and I. Dog. At the circus. Rice. N. Radlova - Horseman. Rice. V. Lebedeva - My puppy. Trezor. Rice. V. Lebedeva - Favorite things. Rice. D. Dubinsky - How an old man sold a cow. Where are the glasses? (From Yu. Tuvim) Poultry yard. (From Yu. Tuvim) Fig. V. Konashevich - Vegetables. (From Yu. Tuvim) Alphabet. (From Yu. Tuvim) Bird radio. (From Yu. Tuvim) Andryushka. Christmas tree. My phone. Rice. I. Semenova - Fables. Bearish vow. Hare and turtle. Polkan and Shavka. Fish business. Elephant painter. Cog. Figure A. Laptev.
*Krylov I. Fables. Rice. A. Lapteva M. Detgiz 1947 80s binding, enz.
* Krylov I. Fables. For a younger age. Series: Golden Library. Binding and title by S. Telingater. Rice. A. Lapteva M.-L. Detgiz 1948 150s bound, 125x200mm On the frontispiece of coated paper, a color portrait of Krylov.
*Laptev A. Funny Pictures. b / w rice. A. Lapteva M. Soviet graphic 1948. 32c cover, enz. t. 25,000 copies. 10 rub.
* Laptev A. Funny kids. Rice. and the text by A. Laptev. M. Soviet artist 1948 16s t. 100,000 copies 2p.50k. http://blagoroden-don.livejournal.com/1243142.html
* Nedogonov A. Flag over the village council: Poem. Hood. A. Laptev. M. Goslitizdat 1949. 96s t. 75,000 copies 1r.50k.
* Laptev A. Funny Pictures. Rice. and the text by A. Laptev. Ed. 2nd. M. Soviet graphic 1949. 32s t. 25,000 copies 3p.
* Laptev A. Funny kids. Rice. and the text by A. Laptev. M. Soviet artist 1949 16s 214x283 mm
1950s http://horoshkovaok.livejournal.com/142614.html
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Alexey LAPTEV(1905-1965). Graphic artist and book illustrator, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. His work is presented in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after V.I. A.S. Pushkin, the State Russian Museum and other museums.

A.M. Laptev was born and lived in Moscow. This is how he recalled his first artistic experiments:

« When it started? The memory retains barely noticeable traces. Leaves of writing paper cut by mom smaller to save money. I draw horses, their live line moves quickly. As if whole herds are galloping in front of me. I like drawing. Mom taught me this. How old am I? Apparently, about three years. After the death of my father from Moscow, we moved to my father's homeland to his relatives in the village. I remember running out there onto the lawn with unpretentious, but very fragrant grass, and an amazing picture appeared to my eyes. Hooking the barn with ropes, the men pulled it, others laid logs in front of it. It turned out to be skating rinks on which the barn moved slowly. Their amicable efforts were united by the melody of the drawn-out choral song "Dubinushka". These childhood memories from an early age carry images of sounds, colors, smells and forms of forever loved ones.

Mom devoted herself to us. Home games for my older sister and younger brother have become the best pastime. And I was passionate about drawing. Once my mother bought the book "Russian Fairy Tales" by Afanasyev. This book remained in our family a source of irrepressible children's creativity. My sister read aloud these wonderful works of the Russian people, and then she and I unrestrainedly drew illustrations for what we read. When now, many years later, I visit exhibitions of children's drawings, I involuntarily recall my early childhood and those too modest opportunities that my sister and I had. We only drew with graphite pencils on small, often lined sheets, or rather, scraps of paper. Mom could not buy paints and good drawing paper. But fabulous images lived with us. We sat up late in the light of a kerosene lamp with a green glass shade and, series after series, we drew illustrations for fairy tales.

It was not only the world of fairy tales that attracted my imagination. In the evenings, I endlessly painted what I saw in the daytime in the yard or in the summer in the village. We were subscribed to the magazine "Firefly". Everything there seemed amusing, interesting. But most of all I was attracted by the illustrations, especially by Alexei Nikanorovich Komarov. His pen drawings were imbued with such a warm feeling of sympathy for various animals, humor and enthusiasm. It was a special visual world, where the fairy-tale characters of animals and animals loved from early childhood acted and lived, laughed, jumped, ran, talked among themselves.

I began to paint avidly very early. The drawings were already quite skillful for three years. I drew from nature, I remember when I was seven years old. Drawing from imagination (which included illustrations) and nature drawing went alongside.

I was indescribably happy when something worked out. I loved my drawings and played them like toys. On my bed, I laid out my works and looked at them for a long time. Indians galloped after someone in pursuit, Cossacks with sabers flew naked on their horses, shots rang out, experiences were accompanied by emotional exclamations - the game was going on.

Drawings accumulated, they went to the archives to my mother (she carefully collected everything). Curiously, I almost never redraw from pictures. It was somehow uninteresting to me. Apparently, I was very interested in the very process of giving birth to an image from nowhere. Mom could not always buy us paints, due to eternal financial difficulties. Perhaps it was this circumstance that laid in me a very early habit of drawing and love for strokes, for lines. When I did receive the paints a little later, I didn't even know what to do with them. It seems that from an early age a child should have both pencils and paints in his arsenal so that his desire to convey the visible and the imaginary, as well as to the color of living nature, develops harmoniously.

Now I ask myself the question: what prompted me and encourages children to draw in general non-stop and with such zeal? Apparently, the very process of translating our ideas and observations on paper. Life was interested not only in something particularly catchy and memorable. One of the early drawings shows an old bucket thrown on a lawn. Seeing him, I sat down with interest and drew. Only now I understand what could have been the impetus for this. The bucket — the only object in the wide, flat meadow — accentuated the spaciousness of the lawn. Throughout my life, I was constantly convinced that even the most ordinary-looking object can be interesting to portray. Without actually realizing it, I then chose the path for myself: to be able to draw everything».

Since 1925 A.M. Laptev worked as an illustrator in magazines, then in the field of book graphics, collaborated with various publishing houses in Moscow: GIZ, Detgiz, Goslitizdat, Molodaya Gvardiya, Sovetskiy Graphic, Sovetskiy Artist, Children's Literature, etc. Since 1956 year - artist of the magazine "Funny Pictures".

A.M. Laptev was one of the first to illustrate the poems of A.L. Barto ("About the War", 1930), and also invented graphic images of the same Nosov Dunno and his friends, who are known all over the world.

He not only illustrated children's books, but also painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre compositions, created autolithographs on a historical and revolutionary theme, wrote poems for children, made toys from clay, wood and paper that continued the artistic tradition of folk art, worked in sculpture small forms. During the Great Patriotic War, Aleksey Mikhailovich remained in Moscow and was a member of the graphic team of the Moscow Union of Artists, which published the satirical lithographed posters "Windows of the Moscow Union of Artists" and propaganda leaflets. Collaborated in "Windows TASS" and the publishing house "Art", worked on posters, postcards, leaflets and created a series of front-line drawings (1942-1943).

Also A.M. Laptev illustrated works of Russian and Soviet classics: "Dead Souls" and "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" by N.V. Gogol, "Who Lives Well in Russia" by N.A. Nekrasov, Virgin Land Raised by M.A. Sholokhov and others.

In the postwar years, Aleksey Mikhailovich was one of the initiators of the movement for the preservation of ancient monuments, his sketches were published in the book “Monuments of Old Russian Architecture in the Drawings of A.M. Laptev ". As an author and artist, Aleksey Mikhailovich created books for children: "Gramophone", "Funny Kids", "Funny Pictures", "How I Drew in the Zoo", "Feet-Chickpeas", "Funny Pictures", "Forest Curiosities", "Kids", "One, two, three ..." and others, prepared tutorials "How to draw a horse" and "Pen drawing".

The works of A.M. Laptev were exhibited at personal exhibitions in Moscow (1940, 1949). He took part in exhibitions of Soviet art in the cities of the USSR and abroad: in the USA, India, and European countries. In 1966, a memorial exhibition of works by A.M. Laptev.

The book "Aleksey Mikhailovich Laptev" (series "Masters of Soviet Art"; 1951) is dedicated to the artist's creative path, and in 1972 his memoirs "On the way ... Notes of an artist" were published.

Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev is a graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Lived in Moscow. Studied at the school-studio of F. I. Rerberg (1923) in Moscow, with P. I. Lvov and N. N. Kupreyanov at VKHUTEMAS / VKHUTEIN (1924-1929 / 1930). From 1925 he worked as an illustrator in a number of magazines. Collaborated with Moscow book publishers. Author of textbooks for art universities. In 1944 he was awarded the 1st degree diploma of the Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR for the series of drawings "Military Series" 1942-1943. Participant of exhibitions: incl. many republican, all-union, foreign; personal: 1938, 1949 - Moscow. Member of the Union of Artists. Awarded with medals of the USSR. Author of illustrations for works of classical Russian and Soviet literature, including books for children. He worked in the field of easel graphics on modern and historical themes, as well as in small-scale sculpture. Collaborated in the magazine "Funny Pictures" from the moment of its foundation. He wrote poetry, published several children's books with his own illustrations. The last time one of A.M. Laptev's books was reprinted in 2010.
It was for him Dunno for the first time allowed himself to be drawn. And the portrait turned out to be so similar to the original that all subsequent "portrait painters" only repeated and played on the image created by A. M. Laptev.

Drawings of A. M. Laptev made in pen and watercolors did not just decorate the first two parts of the Nosov trilogy, they, as Yuri Olesha just noted in his review of The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends, emphasized “her lightness, her joyful summer, we would say , field color ". In addition, Yu. Olesha noticed that the whole book resembles a round dance: "a whole round dance of adventures, jokes, inventions." This association arose among the reviewer, no doubt, thanks to the illustrations by A. M. Laptev. They are multi-shaped and incredibly mobile. The images constantly “change places, configuration, cut into the text, cross it diagonally” (L. Kudryavtseva), preventing our eyes from breaking away from the magnificent, bright, varied round dance of funny and cute little ones. Illustrations by Alexei Mikhailovich “tender, lyrical, fragile ... with touching warmth and at the same time captivating“ seriousness ”, with all the realism” (A. Lavrov), step by step, depict the world of little people in detail. And these creatures in Laptev, although they resemble children (they are childishly dressed, they have childish habits), "but not children, not a parody, not a caricature of a child, and not dolls, but fabulous little people" (L. Kudryavtseva).

The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Biography

Graphic artist, renowned children's illustrator and book designer. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Lived and worked in Moscow, graduated from high school. He studied at the Moscow school-studio of F. I. Rerberg in 1923-1924, at the preparatory department of VKHUTEMAS (1924), VKHUTEMAS - VKHUTEIN (1924-1930), first at the textile faculty, then at the graphic department of D. Shcherbinovsky, P. I Lvov and the famous graphic artist N. N. Kupreyanov. After graduating from VKHUTEMAS, he was mainly engaged in easel and book graphics. He worked a lot in the technique of sanguine, ink, watercolors, pastels; used charcoal, sauce and other materials.

Since 1925 he has been working as an illustrator for many magazines. Later, in 1929, he began to work in the field of book graphics, in the 1930s – 1960s he collaborated with various publishing houses in Moscow: GIZ, DETGIZ, GOSLITIZDAT, "Young Guard", "Soviet Graphic", "Children's Literature" and others.

During the Great Patriotic War, Aleksey Mikhailovich remained in Moscow and was a member of the graphic team of the Moscow Union of Artists, which published the satirical posters "Windows of the Moscow Union of Artists" and propaganda leaflets. Participated in the release of "Windows TASS", worked in the publishing house "Art", worked on posters, postcards, leaflets and created a series of front-line drawings (1942-1943). He worked in the children's magazine "Funny Pictures" from the moment of its foundation. Illustrated books for children: "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" by N. Nosov, "Fables" by I. A. Krylov (1944-1945).

Alexey Laptev also illustrated works of Russian and Soviet classics: "Dead Souls" and "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" by N. V. Gogol, "Who Lives Well in Russia" by N. A. Nekrasov, "Virgin Land Raised" by M. A. Sholokhov and many others.

The works of A.M. Laptev were exhibited at personal exhibitions in Moscow (1940, 1949). He took part in exhibitions of Soviet art in the cities of the USSR and abroad: in the USA, India, and European countries. In 1966, a memorial exhibition of works by A.M. Laptev was organized in Moscow.

The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.

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Alexei Mikhailovich Laptev is a graphic artist, book illustrator, and poet. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.


Lived in Moscow. Studied at the school-studio of F. I. Rerberg (1923) in Moscow, with P. I. Lvov and N. N. Kupreyanov at VKHUTEMAS / VKHUTEIN (1924-1929 / 1930). From 1925 he worked as an illustrator in a number of magazines. Collaborated with Moscow book publishers. Author of textbooks for art universities. In 1944 he was awarded the 1st degree diploma of the Committee for Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR for the series of drawings "Military Series" 1942-1943. Participant of exhibitions: incl. many republican, all-union, foreign; personal: 1938, 1949 - Moscow. Member of the Union of Artists. Awarded with medals of the USSR. Author of illustrations for works of classical Russian and Soviet literature, including books for children. He worked in the field of easel graphics on modern and historical themes, as well as in small-scale sculpture. He wrote poetry, published several children's books with his own illustrations. The last time one of A.M. Laptev's books was reprinted in 2010.

It was for him Dunno for the first time allowed himself to be drawn. And the portrait turned out to be so similar to the original that all subsequent "portrait painters" only repeated and played on the image created by A. M. Laptev.

Drawings of A. M. Laptev made in pen and watercolors did not just decorate the first two parts of the Nosov trilogy, they, as Yuri Olesha just noted in his review of The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends, emphasized “her lightness, her joyful summer, we would say , field color ". In the same review, a line from which we have just quoted, Yu. Olesha noted that the whole book resembles a round dance: "a whole round dance of adventures, jokes, inventions." This association arose among the reviewer, no doubt, thanks to the illustrations by A. M. Laptev. They are multi-shaped and incredibly mobile. The images constantly “change places, configuration, cut into the text, cross it diagonally” (L. Kudryavtseva), preventing our eyes from breaking away from the magnificent, bright, varied round dance of funny and cute little ones. Illustrations by Alexei Mikhailovich “tender, lyrical, fragile ... with touching warmth and at the same time captivating“ seriousness ”, with all the realism” (A. Lavrov), step by step, depict the world of little people in detail. And these creatures in Laptev, although they resemble children (they are childishly dressed, they have childish habits), "but not children, not a parody, not a caricature of a child, and not dolls, but fabulous little people" (L. Kudryavtseva).

The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.

N. Gogol. Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Laptev A. Funny kids. Rice. and text by A. Laptev. M. Soviet artist, 1949

Gogol N. Dead Souls

One two Three

A. Chekhov. Stories

I. Krylov. Fables

N. Nosov. The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends

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