Andreev Yuri Alexandrovich

Painter, art critic, restorer, collector, oldest teacher at a children's art school, connoisseur of music and literature. In 1959 he graduated from the Penza Art School. Savitsky. Then art history education in Leningrad, internship as an artist-restorer in the workshops named after. Grabar, many years of service in this capacity at the Kuibyshev/Samara Museum, teaching at a children's art school. The beginning of Andreev the artist, like many of his colleagues from the “sixties”, is connected with the creative youth association “GMK-62” - the City Youth Club - an informal association of creative youth. Andreev’s creative works are varied in genres and themes. He is the author of easel everyday and historical works, a large number of landscapes, portraits and still lifes. This genre diversity is united by the main theme - the people and nature of the Volga region, historical Samara, old, cherished by his memory and imagination.