Bazhenov Alexander Vladimirovich

Graphic artist, illustrator, cartoonist, poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. Studied at Vkhutemas. He began working as an illustrator in the 1920s. He collaborated with the magazines “Veselye Kartinki” and “Crocodile”, the newspapers “Pravda” and “Trud”. In the 1930s, he regularly contributed cartoons to the popular newspaper For Industrialization. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a war correspondent for the army newspapers of the 1st Belorussian Front “For the Fatherland” and “Combat Call”. In the post-war years A.V. Bazhenov illustrated children's books, including S.V. Mikhalkov “It’s Yourself to Blame” (1963), “Tales” (1966). Collaborated with the publishing house "IZOGIZ", "Soviet Russia"; I drew sketches of postcards and made political posters. Participated in the large-scale exhibition “Posters and Satire for 40 Years in the Works of Moscow Artists” (1958). In 1962, a collection of the artist’s cartoons was published in the publication “Crocodile”.