The one-man exhibition of St. Petersburg artist Alexander Samuilovich Pasternak (1931-2012) will be opened in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes on April 2. Visitors will be able to see pictures thematically connected with the Russian North, the Ferapontov and the Kirillo-Belozersky Monasteries and drawings of the master.
The Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes invites everybody to attend the opening ceremony of the display that is due to begin in the Treasury Chamber at 15:00.
Alexander Samuilovich Pasternak was born in September 1931 and died in August 2012.
From 1944 to 1946, he attended a drawing group in the Pioneers’ Palace (his works are kept in the archive of this study group).
In 1946, he took part in the All-Union Exhibition of Children’s Drawings with his work “Aerostat” (water-colour, gouache).
From 1946 to 1951, he went to the art school in the Institute named after I.E. Repin of the Academy of Arts of the USSR and finished it with a gold medal.
From 1951 to 1954, he served in the navy first as a seaman, then as a painter of the Officers’ House of the Northern Fleet.
From 1954 to 1955, Alexander continued attending the art school studying special subjects and finished it with honours.
From 1955 to 1961, he studied at the Painting Department of the Institute named after I.E. Repin.
From 1960 to 1966, being a student and then a graduate of the institute, he taught painting in the study group of the Pioneers’ House in the Moscow district. Works of his pupils got prizes at the city exhibition of children’s creative work in the Russian Museum.
From 1963 to 1966, he had a second job teaching in the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in Leningrad (nowadays - the Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Alexander von Stieglitz).
In 1964, he was admitted as a candidate to the painting section in the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.
In 1970, he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR in the painting section.
From 1961 to 1991, Alexander Pasternak participated in All-Union, republican and city exhibitions.
From 1961 to 2009, he worked under creative agreements as the chief art director of large-scale theatricalized festivals and performances: city, republican and international.
This is a list of some of them:
From 1969 to 1979 - the city festival of school-leavers and graduates of vocational schools in Leningrad “Scarlet Sails”.
In May 1973 – the sports parade in Palace Square of Leningrad.
From 1977 to 1980 – the regional festivals in Vladimir and Kovrov.
In 1970 – the republican festival of the Komi Republic in Ukhta.
In 1980 – the solemn opening and closing ceremonies of the football tournament during the 22nd Summer Olympics at the Kirov Stadium in Leningrad (he received a letter of gratitude of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games).
In 1982 – the festival marking the 1500th anniversary of the foundation of Kiev (he was awarded a commemorative medal from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet).
In 1983 – the festival marking the 1500th anniversary of the foundation of Tashkent.
In 1985 - the solemn opening and closing ceremonies of the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (he was awarded the medal of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League and the Soviet Preparatory Committee “For active participation in preparation and holding of the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow”).
In 1985 – the festival marking the 975th anniversary of the foundation of Yaroslavl.
In 1994 - the solemn opening and closing ceremonies of the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg.
In 2003 - the solemn opening ceremony of the festival marking the 300th anniversary of the foundation of St. Petersburg (the New Year’s performance at the Spit of Vasilievsky Island).
From 1992 to 2012, he taught scenic design at the Sub-Department of Large-Scale Theatricalized Performances and Festivals.
In 1996, he got the title of the labour veteran.
From 2000 to 2009, he was a chief artist of the district, then regional festival “Kopor Amusement” in the village of Koporye of the Lomonosov district in the Leningrad region. Alexander Pasternak was given the All-Russian Prize “Sides of the Mass Theatre” for it in 2007.
The sketches of many of his festivals are kept in the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg.
