Yuliy Abramovich Ganf (1898-1973) - Soviet Russian graphic artist, People's Artist of the USSR

People's Artist of the USSR

People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...

, especially known for his satirical cartoons in the Krokodil magazine.

Yuliy Ganf was born on June 8, 1898 in the city of Poltava

Poltava

Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....

. He studied in the Art Shop of Eduard Steinberg

Eduard Steinberg

Eduard Arkadevich Steinberg , born in Moscow 3 March 1937, is a Russian painter, philosopher and dissident.-Personal life:Steinberg is the son of poet and author Arkady Steinberg....

 in 1917-1920 and in VKhUTEMAS

VKhUTEMAS

Vkhutemas ) was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas. The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the intentions, in the words of the Soviet government, "to prepare master artists of the highest qualifications for...

 (The Higher Artistic and Technical Shops) in 1922-1924. In 1920s, he produced political caricatures for Moscow

Moscow

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-based magazines and newspapers: Krasny Perets, Bezbozhnik

Bezbozhnik

Bezbozhnik was a monthly anti-religious and atheistic satirical magazine, published in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1941 by the Society of the Godless. Between 1923 and 1931, there was also a daily newspaper called Bezbozhnik u Stanka...

, Krokodil

Krokodil

Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor...

, Pravda

Pravda

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, illustrated books published for Detgiz (The State Publishing House of Children's Literature of the Ministry of Education of RSFSR). Author of many political slogans in 1930s. In 1945, he was granted the title of Honoured Artist of RSFSR, and in 1964 - People's Artist of the USSR

People's Artist of the USSR

People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...

. In 1970, he was awarded the golden Fighter for Peace medal at the International Exhibition "Satire in Fight for Peace". Yuliy Ganf died in Moscow

Moscow

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 in 1973.

The artworks of Ganf are exhibited in several museums of art throughout Russia and CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

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: Tver Museum of Art, Yekaterinburg Museum of Art, Lugansk Museum of Art, Yerevan Armenia Art Gallery, the Russian State Library

Russian State Library

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and other collections.