Career
Born in Mologa in 1924, Lobanov contracted meningitis before five years old and was left deaf and mute. In 1937, his family was relocated from their home town of Mologa to make way for the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir, forcing him to abandon his studies at the school for the deaf he was attending. During the first years of hospitalization, his violence and aggression remained until he became withdrawn and increasingly solitary.
Over the years his drawings amounted in the hundreds and very later Doctor Gavrilov helped organize showings of his work and others works.
First to local universities and psychiatrists, and then by the help of Dominique de Miscault in French museums and international galleries. In 2001 a short documentary, Alexandre Pavlovitch Lobanov, was made by the French filmmaker Bruno Decharme.
Lobanov died in April 2003 in an asylum near Yaroslavl.