Exhibition "Life Given to Art", in memory of the artist and restorer B.V. Dmitrieva

August 5 at 16.00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 104) opens the exhibition "Life Given to Art". Exhibition dedicated to the memory of the artist and restorer B.V. Dmitrieva (1925 - 2015). ” This exhibition is a story about the life and work of the recently departed Kaluga artist and restorer Boris Vasilievich Dmitriev.

Boris Vasilievich - a front-line soldier, restorer, artist - did not live two weeks before his 90th birthday and 70th anniversary of the Victory! He was born on May 9, 1925 in the village of Petrovo near Kaluga in a peasant family. In 1929, the family moved to Kaluga. Here he studied, survived the German occupation, graduated from high school. In 1943, Boris Vasilievich was drafted into the army, served in a mortar company. During the battles for the liberation of Belarus in 1944, he was seriously wounded, and then demobilized due to disability. He has rewards for military merit.

Boris Vasilievich began his career in 1945 as an artist-decorator in the Kaluga Drama Theater under the direction of theater artist K.Kh. Serbinovich. He participated in the design of many productions of the Kaluga theater. In those same years, he began to independently engage in painting.

In 1950, Boris Vasilievich joined the Kaluga Artist Partnership, where his creative abilities as an artist and painter were further developed. Since 1955, he studied at the courses of restorers at the Central restoration workshops in Moscow, after which he worked for five years as a restorer of the State Art Museum of the Belarusian SSR in Minsk. During this time he brought back to life a lot of paintings by different artists. Since 1960, he studied at the evening department of the Theater and Art Institute in Minsk.

In 1962, Boris Vasilievich returned to his hometown, got a job in the workshop of the Kaluga branch of the Art Fund. Since April 1969, he worked as a restoration artist at the Kaluga Regional Art Museum. Boris Vasilievich was a very experienced restoration artist: he equally professionally restored works of tempera painting (icon), oil painting and graphic art, and interior painting of the museum. Over the years, he brought back to life many works of art from the collections of Kaluga museums, preserving them for future generations.

Boris Vasilyevich’s personal creative destiny also developed well: he took place as a professional artist, his works are in the collection of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, in private collections.

Boris Vasilyevich lived a great life, with his work, works of art saved and saved by him, he will remain in the history of culture of Russia and Belarus, and in our memory.

curator, senior researcher I.V. Guzhova

The exhibition will run from 05 to 23 August 2015 at the address: st. Lenin, d.104.

Age limit: 0+

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, on Thursday from 11.00 to 19.00.

Monday is the day off. The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.

Address: st. Lenin, 104. Contact phone - 8 (4842) 56 28 30.

www.artmuseum.kaluga.ru