GRABAR (Khrabrov) Igor Emmanuilovich
Born in Budapest 1871Studied at St.Petersburg University (law) 1889-93; Imperial Academy of Arts 1894-96; A.Azbe's school, Munich, 1896-98; architecture polytechnic, Munich, c.1901. Active in St.Petersburg until 1903; Moscow thereafter. Began exhibiting 1898. Member of World of Art from 1901; Union of Russian Artists 1903-10; Moscow Painters 1925-26; OMKh from 1928 (founder member, chairman until 1929); Repin Society 1920s. Exhibited with MOLKh 1898-99; World of Art 1902-22; Union of Russian Artists 1903-10; Moscow Painters 1925; Repin Society 1927; OMKh 1928. Important shows include first Izdebski salon 1909-10; "First Russian Art Exhibition" Berlin 1922; "Artists of the Russian Federation over Fifteen Years" Leningrad 1932, Moscow 1933; "Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Read Army" Moscow 1933; "Industry of Socialism" Moscow 1939; "All-Union Art Exhibition" Moscow 1947, 1949, 1955; "Soviet Russia" Moscow 1960. Taught at A.Azbe's school 1898-1901; Moscow Art Institute 1937-43(director); Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture/Repin Institute 1943-46 (director). Trustee and then director of Tretyakov Gallery 1913-25; founderof Central Restoration Studios, Moscow (director 1918-30, scientific leader 1944-60); professor at Moscow University from 1920; head of visual arts section of Stalin prize committee; head of the history of art institute of the Academy of Sciences 1944-60. Became an academician 1908. Became an Active Member of Academy of Arts 1913. Became a Soviet academician 1947. Awarded Stalin prize 1941; Orders of Lenin 1945, 1946; the title 'People's Artist of the USSR' 1956. A leading figure in the Soviet art establishment; member of USSR Academy of Sciences from 1943. Died in Moscow 1960.
