Litvinenko Lidiya Andreevna

She studied at the Stroganov School (1914-1917) with F. Fedorovsky. From 1917 to 1925 she attended the workshops of P. P. Konchalovsky and R. R. Falk, and at the same time studied at VKHUTEMAS (until 1925). In the 1920s, she exhibited her works at the Moscow Painters exhibition (1925), and was a member of the Society of Moscow Artists group. She took part in many large combined exhibitions of the 30s - such as “Socialist construction in Soviet art” (1930), “Artists of the RSFSR for 15 years” (graphics, 1933), “Exhibition of beginning artists of Moscow” (1934), “Exhibition of painting, drawing and sculpture of women artists” (1938), “Art exhibition painting, graphics, sculpture by Moscow artists" in Kislovodsk (1938), "Industry of Socialism" (1939). Since 1935 she lived in Kazakhstan. After the arrest and execution of her husband in 1938, she was expelled from the Moscow Union of Artists and was deprived of her workshop. She was engaged in organizational work - arranging propaganda exhibitions "All forces to defeat the enemy" during the war, traveling - in the post-war years: working in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists, she accompanied exhibitions in the republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. In 1972 in Almaty, at the exhibition “The Birth of the Industry of Kazakhstan”, the artist’s works were again shown. A retrospective exhibition of works took place in 1994 at the Central House of Artists. Museums: Alma-Ata, History of Moscow, Metrostroy, Uglich.