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Âiographical notes
Vladimir Semyonovitch Lubarov was born in Moscow on September 4, 1944. His paternal grandmother used to run a «traktir» (a pub) in Kharkiv before the revolution, while his grandfather was an inveterate card-player.
His parents, modest Soviet white-collar workers, moved to Moscow just before their son's birth and settled down in a communal flat shared by several families in the street of Tshipok in Zamoskvoreche (on the left bank of the Moscow River).
In his childhood, Vova (short for Vladimir) Lubarov used to draw battle scenes,
in which Soviet soldiers were unfailingly defeating fascists.
1955-1962. Studied at the Moscow Secondary School of Arts under the Surikov Institute, where future realist painters got their start. In spite of the fact that this realism was called «socialist», Lubarov's education was not bad: he studied anatomy and perspective, and became familiar with classic art.
1962. Worked as a vehicle painter in a car pool garage.
1963-1969. Entered the Moscow Institute of Printing, Faculty of Graphic Design, where the well-known Russian artist Andrei Goncharov was teaching. His choice of vocation stemmed not only from his love for books. Book illustration and design was a small island in the ocean of Soviet culture where party censors would not pry very often, thus allowing him to feel relatively independent.
1969-1990. Illustrated and designed more than 100 books including works by such authors as Erich Raspe, E.T.A.Hoffmann, Voltaire, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Ðîå, Stanislav Lem, Nikolai Gogol, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. At the same time (from 1973 to 1984) worked as Chief Designer for the magazine Chemistry & Life.
1988. Along with Arkady Strugatsky and a group of writers established the Text Publishers, Ltd. - the first private publishing house in Russia.
1991. Changed his life dramatically moving to the village of Peremilovo in the Vladimir Region. Lubarov went in for easel graphics, and later, easel painting.
1993. Appletree Press (U.K.) published Russian Proverbs illustrated by Lubarov. The book was reprinted in the U.S. the following year.
1994. The first personal exhibition of rural works by Vladimir Lubarov opened
in Brussels.
1995. Basic «Village of Peremilovo» series by Lubarov is basically completed.
It portrays the world of the Russian boondocks, where folklore exists side by side with modernity, irony with the grotesque, the fantastic with reality. The series comprises about 300 graphic works and paintings.
1997. «Amsterdam» series.
1998. «Town of Tshipok» series.
1998-1999. The first works from the «Jewish Happiness» series.
1996-2004. Personal and joint exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg.
Ñollections
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
The State Literary Museum, Moscow
The State Museum of Saint-Petersburg (Petropavlovskaya fortress)
Kaluga Regional Museum of Fine Art
Kemerovo Art Museum
Samara Museum of Fine Art
Museum of book. Russian State Library, Moscow
The International Research Center for Russian & East
European Jewish Studies, Moscow
The Plantin-Moretus Moseum, Antwerp, Belgium.
The Frans Masereel Center, Belgium
Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver, Colorado, USA
The Museum of Rishom le-Zion, Israel
University Art Museum, Albuqurque, New Mexico,USA.
Collection of Lydia Semenova, Moscow
Collection of Slava Polunin, Paris
Collection of Vladimir Zemtsov, Moscow
Collection of Andrey Makarevich, Moscow
Collection of Yakov and Alexander Urinson, Moscow
Collection of Ephim Blakher, Berlin
Collection of Alexander Dobrovynsky, Moscow
Collection of Helmut & Barbara Bock,Zell-Atzenbach, Germany
Collection of Erich Senn, Soloturn, Switzerland
Collection of Pallot Judith, London, UK
Collection of Leonid Parfenov, Moscow
Collection of Vyacheslav Chernish, Moscow
Collection of Cristina Delavre, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Collection of Martina Nibbeling-Wriessnig, Potsdam, Germany
Collection of Renata Kuhnhenne, Cohem, Germany
Collection of Fred and Lorie Berliner, Washington, USA
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