Usachev Anatoly Andreyevich

Usachev Anatoly Andreyevich (1914-1999). Born April 23 in Orenburg in the family of a railway worker. The young man went to Moscow. In 1940 he graduated from the Architectural Institute and received the first prize from the Union of Architects from the hands of Professor Schusev. He fought. During the war years, while in the engineering troops, he participated in hostilities on the fronts of the West, Don, Stalingrad, and South. He was awarded 14 orders and medals. After the war he worked in various architectural workshops. He devoted his free time to drawing. Since 1977, has devoted himself only to oil painting. The main theme of his paintings is the nature near Moscow and flowers are executed in gentle joyful coloring. The picturesque manner of writing is diverse from purely realistic to impressionistic and avant-garde. An individual style can be traced in each work, gradually evolving towards a light, fantasy, full of deep expressiveness element. His paintings are full of a sincere and chaste sense of admiration for the greatness of the natural world. He has written more than 3,000 paintings, many of which adorn a number of public places, and are also in museums and private collections in England, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Georgia, Armenia, and Russia. In the 1990s, the work of A.A. Usachev was sold at auctions Paris-Drouot Richelieu, Limoges-Hotel des ventes, Arsenal-Metz, Roubaix, Versailles-Hotel Rameau and others.