Artist Zhukov Biography

Zhukov was born on December 2, Zhukovs - Volzhskaya merchant surname.

Great -grandfather Ivan Alexandrovich - publicist, published newspapers "Rybinsky leaflet", "Rybinsky Exchange Leaf", "Nizhny Novgorod Exchange Leaf", was engaged in bread trade. Grandfather Nikolai Ivanovich received a university education, awarded the medal “For Zeal” - the highest merchant award in Russia. Father Nikolai Nikolaevich - lawyer, graduated from St. Petersburg and Berlin universities.

He worked in the prosecutor's office. Mother is Valentina Yakovlevna, in the girlishness of Sizov. The early years N. Zhukov spent in Vyatka. In the spring of G. In early May, the family moved to Yelets. Since December, they settled in the house on the corner of Pokrovskaya and Uspenskaya Street Street December 9, 42, which belonged to the family of doctors and homeowners of the Bakulins.

From an early age, Nikolai Zhukov was fond of drawing. During the First World War, he painted playing cards, which the mother in the bazaar exchanged for products. In G. was a permanent designer of posters, ads. He visited the studio from the art. From G. at the end of his studies in the city after demobilization he moved to Moscow. In - gg. C to gg.

The first designer work was a sketch of packaging of Kazbek cigarettes. Zhukov took 5 works to the competition. The jury knew neither the names of the authors or their country. When the envelopes with the names of the winners were opened, it turned out that Zhukov received 4 prizes. Mikhailova, “Sadko” by E. Blaginina, “Black Sally” N. Zhukov turned to the historical and revolutionary topic.

The author of a series of drawings dedicated to K. Marx, F. Engels, I. Memories of Marx. Zhukova includes more than 2.5 thousand drawings. Zhukov was called up for training camps in Molodechno in Belarus. The beginning of the war found the artist in great bows. At first, the Belarusian Front served the clerks of the Toropetsk Rifle Regiment. Soon was seconded to the editorial office of the front -line newspaper "for the defeat of the enemy" the Kalinin front.

In October, G. Zhukov was sent on editorial affairs to Moscow, where he met a friend of the artist Viktor Klimashin, who was familiar from the Saratov art technical school. There was an idea to create a poster “Defended Moscow”. The poster was created in one night, and after a few days it could be seen on all the streets of Moscow. From the end of G. Zhukov - a freelance correspondent of the newspaper Pravda.

In March, in the summer of the same year, he was at the disposal of the 7th department of agitation and propaganda of the Main Political Administration of the Red Army. He created the posters "to stand! The originals of posters were not preserved, since for printing they were cut into four parts. Since the summer of G. Grekova, he was appointed by its leader before G.

Winner met in Hungary with the rank of captain. In the same year he joined the CPSU. Zhukov was sent by the editors of the newspaper Pravda to the Nuremberg process as a correspondent. The artist had to work in difficult conditions. The accused, noticing the artist, tried to close their faces. Then Zhukov, armed with an eight -time binoculars, moved to the 15th row.

It was necessary to draw with one hand. For forty days, he created drawings of war criminals, prosecutors, defenders, witnesses. They compiled a series of "Nuremberg process." In -, by the anniversary of the Nuremberg process, Zhukov created an additional 24 sheets for the Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR, where all war criminals were depicted on black paper of the “Shadows of the Past”.

Field "The Tale of a real man." Zhukov was the only of the artists to be the coffin of I. Stalin for drawing a portrait. All drawings, except for one, were in private collections. The last daughter of Zhukova Arina Polyanskaya gave the house-museum N. Zhukov in Yelets. Grekov, led by Zhukov, were awarded a trip to Italy. During a two -month trip, Zhukov made many drawings, sketches, diary entries.

They formed the basis of the Italian work cycle. She was a huge success. There, Zhukov had a plan to make a series of portraits of participants in Italian resistance. In its implementation, the Association of Italy veterans helped. The artist painted right at the exhibition. The series included portraits. For its creation, Zhukov was awarded the medal of the worm brothers and a scarf of Italian partisans, as well as the gold medal named after Grekova was an important place in the work of N.

Zhukov was occupied by children's topics. The very first drawing related to it was created in the city with the outbreak of World War II and the birth of the First daughter in the city of Children's images were found on posters and leaflets, front -line sketches. Drawings on a children's topic formed the basis of several books. He is the author of the project of the Maternity Medal, Zhukov’s connection with Yelets was not interrupted.

He supported local artists: I. Mishin, A. Klimov, held meetings with schoolchildren. Zhukov was awarded the title of honorary citizen Yelets. He was awarded the Order of Lenin Zhukov on September 24, he was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. It is located in the house where the artist’s childhood passed. Zhukov’s work of sculptor A. Zhukov, who is awarded to young artists and their teachers annually on December 2.

The name of the Vladivostok shipping company is named after N. Zhukov. Works by the author K. Marx and F.