Likman Grigory Gustavovich

Soviet painter and graphic artist, one of the oldest and most significant artists in Siberia, whose career spanned more than six decades. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1933, Member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR) since 1926, participated in almost all regional exhibitions of the organization. Since 1941, he was the chairman of the Novosibirsk Union of Soviet Artists and a member of the editorial board of “Okna TASS,” where 264 sets of propaganda posters were produced in the first months of the war. In the post‑war years, he completed advanced training courses at Vsekokhudozhnik under the guidance of Academician B. V. Ioganson and, over the decades, regularly participated in regional, zonal, republican, and all‑Union exhibitions. The works are housed in the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, the Novosibirsk Regional Museum, the Novokuznetsk Regional Museum, as well as in museum and private collections in Europe, the USA, and Japan. The master’s carved wooden items were presented as gifts to David Oistrakh and Mao Zedong. In 2024, to mark the 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth, a large‑scale comprehensive exhibition titled “And All Life Lies Ahead…” was held in Novosibirsk. It brought together works from museum collections, the artist’s family archive, and the collection of Honorary Academician Andrey Kovalev.