Ushin Andrey Alekseevich (1927, Leningrad - 2005, St. Petersburg) - graphic artist, linocut master, Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Born in 1927 in Leningrad, in the family of the famous theater artist and book graphic artist Alexei Ushin. Andrei's uncle, N. A. Ushin, was also a theater artist and book illustrator.
In 1939 he entered the Secondary Art School at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Academy of Arts. Classes at school were interrupted by the war. During the blockade, he worked as a decorator for M.P. Zandina, helped restore the scenery for the Opera and Ballet Theater. CM. Kirov. His father and uncle died of starvation. Father A.A. Ushina was an artist of the book, uncle N.A. Ushin is a theater artist and a subtle illustrator. In the siege in the winter of 1943, in the light of the smokehouse, Andrei made his first experiments in printmaking. He found at home palm boards and shtikheli left from the uncle-artist, and in a short time from 1943 to 1946 he created several hundred engravings, but few of them survived. After the war, he continued his studies at the secondary school, then he studied at the Leningrad Art College on Tavricheskaya Street. Since 1948, he was an animator at the Lennauch-film studio. He created many paintings, etchings, woodcuts. Outstanding linocut master.
Работы
Past auctions
author's lithograph, 19x35 cm, 1953
linocut, 30x36 cm, 1984
lithography, 23x35 cm
linocut, 1979
linocut, 30x42 cm, 1970s
linocut, 77x57 cm
ten engravings
ten engravings
author's lithograph, 20x26 cm, 1959
author's lithograph, 10x15 cm, sheet size - 21.5х25 см
linocut, 15x12 cm, sheet: 27x20 cm, 1990s
linocut, 7.5x14.5 cm, sheet: 16x24 cm, 1990s
linocut, 19.5x26 cm, sheet: 30x35.5 cm, 1990s
linocut in a frame, 13x16 cm, total: 22x25 cm, 1990s
linocut in a frame, 18x14 cm, total: 27x20 cm
linocut in the frame, 15.5x11 cm, total: 27x20 cm, 1990
linocut, 29x29 cm, sheet: 45x45 cm
lithograph, 40x33 cm, 1980
8 reproductions from linocut, 9x11.8 cm, 1967. Publishing House «Artist of the RSFSR» Leningrad.
linocut, 11.5x20.5 cm, sheet: 24x29.5 cm, 1987
paper, ink, pen, 29x21 cm, 1961
linocut, 1/7, 46x72 cm, sheet: 70x90 cm, 1987
linocut, 16x29 cm, sheet: 32x41.5 cm, 1963
linocut, 1986
linocut, 15x22.5 cm, sheet: 28x34 cm, 1987
linocut, sheet: 28x24 cm, print: 15.5x14 cm, 1988