Tymoshenko Lidiya Yakovlevna

Painter, graphic artist. In 1911–1918 she studied at the gymnasium in St. Petersburg (Petrograd). She received her artistic education in 1923–1928 at the State Industrial College, where she studied with M. P. Bobyshev, A. A. Rylov, P. A. Mansurov, and also in Ginkhuk in Petrograd with P. A. Mansurov. In 1928 she joined the creative association “Circle of Artists,” one of the founders of which was Zagoskin. She took part in the III exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the association at the State Russian Museum, as well as in the “Circle” exhibition at the Kyiv Art Gallery. In 1929–1931 she made creative trips to the Vitebsk, Mogilev, and Poltava regions, where she painted many gouaches and watercolors from life. In 1932–1935 she continued her education in graduate school at the All-Russian Academy of Arts with K. F. Yuon and A. I. Savinov. She worked a lot in the field of easel painting. In 1938–1959 she was married to the artist E. A. Kibrik; in 1939, her second son, Nikolai, was born. From 1938 she worked in the experimental lithographic workshop of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and in 1940 she created her most famous work in the field of lithography, “Katyusha”. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, she was evacuated to the Yaroslavl region, then moved to Siberia, and from there to Central Asia and Udmurtia. At the end of 1934 she moved to Moscow. In 1947, Timoshenko’s first personal exhibition took place in the halls of the Moscow Union of Artists and Artists, and then the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1951–1959 and 1960–1967 she created cycles of illustrations for the novel “Eugene Onegin” by A. S. Pushkin. In 1961, a second personal exhibition was held in the halls of the Moscow Union of Artists, which brought the artist “wide” fame. She took part in many group exhibitions, including “Woman in Socialist Construction” at the State Russian Museum (1934), an exhibition of Soviet graphics at the British Royal Academy of Arts in London (1946), All-Union art exhibitions at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin (1946–1947, 1955), and many others. The heyday of Tymoshenko's creativity occurred in the mid-1930s. At this time, a figurative language and his own pictorial and graphic style were formed. Most of her works from this period are devoted to themes of childhood and adolescence, depicting pioneers, teenagers spending time on sports fields, sunbathing and swimming on the beach, dancing, picking fruit, and so on. In many ways, it was Tymoshenko’s expressive images that shaped the modern understanding of the era of the 1930s. It is no coincidence that her works were exhibited at the exhibition “Agitation for Happiness. Soviet art of the Stalin era" in 1994 Dusseldorf and Bremen. Timoshenko's works are in many museum collections in Russia, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, as well as in regional museums.