The ‘Early spring’ picture from the Valuy Museum of History and Art collection was painted by artist Dmitry Nalbandyan.
The painter was born in 1906 in Tiflis (currently Tbilisi). He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, where he studied with masters Eugene Lansere and Yeghishe Tatevosyan. Later, Dmitry Nalbandyan worked as a cartoonist in Goskinoprom and the Odessa film Studio. In 1931, he moved to Moscow.
In the capital, the aspiring artist quickly gained popularity among the party elite. Soon, Dmitry Nalbandyan became known as a master of the Soviet ceremonial portrait, though he also painted landscapes and still lifes. There are portraits of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and other prominent political figures. Fellow artists jokingly called him ‘the first brush of the Politburo.’ The artist often invented and directed pictures, such as: ‘Vladimir Mayakovsky in Georgia (Baghdadi) in 1927’, ‘V. I. Lenin and A.M. Gorky among fishermen on Capri. 1908’, ‘Vernatun (Mighty bunch) and others.
Nalbandyan was a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. He also had the title of People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize. In 1978, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts for a collective portrait of Armenian cultural figures called ‘Vernatun.’
At the end of 1992, based on the collection donated by the artist to the city, the Moscow government opened the Dmitry Nalbandyan Museum-workshop, which has been part of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art since 2018. Today, the collection of the Museum-workshop contains more than 1,500 works of the artist. These include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre paintings created by the author at different stages of his creative career and materials from the home archive, photographs, books, furniture, and decorative and applied arts.
‘Early Spring’ by Dmitry Nalbandian was transferred to the holdings of the Valuy Museum of History and Art in the 1990s from the All-Union Art Production Association named after Vuchetich of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. Being the Master of landscape, Nalbandian managed to convey all the colorful richness of nature in his landscape paintings. Wherever the artist was, he worked enthusiastically in the open air, trying to reflect the changeable and whimsical nature of nature.
The painter was born in 1906 in Tiflis (currently Tbilisi). He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, where he studied with masters Eugene Lansere and Yeghishe Tatevosyan. Later, Dmitry Nalbandyan worked as a cartoonist in Goskinoprom and the Odessa film Studio. In 1931, he moved to Moscow.
In the capital, the aspiring artist quickly gained popularity among the party elite. Soon, Dmitry Nalbandyan became known as a master of the Soviet ceremonial portrait, though he also painted landscapes and still lifes. There are portraits of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and other prominent political figures. Fellow artists jokingly called him ‘the first brush of the Politburo.’ The artist often invented and directed pictures, such as: ‘Vladimir Mayakovsky in Georgia (Baghdadi) in 1927’, ‘V. I. Lenin and A.M. Gorky among fishermen on Capri. 1908’, ‘Vernatun (Mighty bunch) and others.
Nalbandyan was a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. He also had the title of People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize. In 1978, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts for a collective portrait of Armenian cultural figures called ‘Vernatun.’
At the end of 1992, based on the collection donated by the artist to the city, the Moscow government opened the Dmitry Nalbandyan Museum-workshop, which has been part of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art since 2018. Today, the collection of the Museum-workshop contains more than 1,500 works of the artist. These include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre paintings created by the author at different stages of his creative career and materials from the home archive, photographs, books, furniture, and decorative and applied arts.
‘Early Spring’ by Dmitry Nalbandian was transferred to the holdings of the Valuy Museum of History and Art in the 1990s from the All-Union Art Production Association named after Vuchetich of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. Being the Master of landscape, Nalbandian managed to convey all the colorful richness of nature in his landscape paintings. Wherever the artist was, he worked enthusiastically in the open air, trying to reflect the changeable and whimsical nature of nature.
