Background
AVILOV, Mikhail was born on September 18, 1882.
AVILOV, Mikhail was born on September 18, 1882.
In 1893-1903 he studied in the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, then in private studio of artist Leon Dmitriev-Kavkazsky.
Mostly known for his battle paintings. Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov was born September 6, 1882 in Saint St. Petersburg. In 1904-1910 Avilov studied in Imperial Academy of Arts, pupil of Franz Roubaud and Mykola Samokysh.
Since 1908 he begins to participate in art exhibitions.
Mikhail Avilov fought in the First World War. After the October Revolution of 1917 Avilov taught at the School of Drawing Society for the Encouragement of Arts in Petrograd, then in the College of Industrial Art and in the Academy of Arts.
Since 1923 Avilov was exhibitor of AKhRR. In 1932 he was one of the faunders of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. In 1953 Avilov was awarded the honorary title the People"s Artist of the Russian Federation.
Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov died on April 14, 1954 at the seventy second years of life.
He was buried in Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. His paintings reside in Russian museum, Tretyakov gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Japan, China, France, England, and other countries. Vsevolod Bazhenov
Mikhail Kaneev
Tatiana Kopnina
Boris Lavrenko
Alexander Pushnin
Galina Smirnova
Mikhail Tkachev
and others
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He was a Member of the Academy of Arts of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.