Vladimir Isaakovich Prager

Background

Vladimir Isaakovich Prager was born in 1903 in Voronezh, Russian Federation. Fleeing from the Black Hundred pogroms (1904-1905), his family moved to Libau, where Prager first began to draw.

Education

Prager completed training courses for senior school teachers in Ryazan (1922), and the Moscow Central Art Courses of the General Directorate of Vocational Education at the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1927).

Career

In 1933, he worked on a series of sketches for the “Sovkhoznaya Gazeta” in the Saratov region. Being in evacuation in Novosibirsk (1941-1944), Prager headed the local branch of the Union of Artists, created a number of paintings on military-patriotic themes. He worked in the genres of portrait, landscape and nude. Since the 1940s Leninist theme dominated in the Prager’s works.

Achievements

• His the most famous paintings are: “Lenin's Arrival in Petrograd” (1947), “Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol” (1948), “Lenin and Krupskaya at the Higher Art and Technical Studios” (1949), “Lenin’s Youth” (Moscow State University, 1950), Lenin in the Kremlin "(1960). Prager's "Leniniana" is devoid of opportunistic considerations and continues the realistic traditions in art.
  
  In 1962, posthumous exhibitions of Prager's works took place in Moscow and Ulyanovsk. Kramskoy Regional Art Museum in Voronezh possesses 6 Prager’s works (1930-1950s), 5 of which in 1986 were donated by the widow of the artist V.Yu. Zimina.The museum’s archive also contains various biographical materials about Prager.

Works

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• painting

  • Lenin’s Youth

• Other Work

  • The first concert of Tchaikovsky

  • Ural Metallurgists

Membership

• Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia , Russia

  1927