Alexei Mozhaev

Alexei Mozhaev studied at Repin Institute of Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg.

• Name — Alexei Vasilievich Mozhaev • Born — 5 October 1918 • Birthplace — Vtoraya Sosnovka, Saratov Province, Soviet Russia • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation • Field — Painting, Art teaching • Training — Repin Institute of Arts • Movement — Realism

Alexei Vasilievich Mozhaev was born on 5 October 1918 in the village of Vtoraya Sosnovka, a suburb of the city of Saratov, on the Volga river. In 1936, Alexei Mozhaev entered at the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied of Isaak Brodsky, Alexander Lubimov, Genrikh Pavlovsky. In 1946, after the Great Patriotic War Alexei Mozhaev graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Boris Ioganson's workshop. His graduation work was genre painting named "In Native Family", devoted to the postwar revival of the country. Since 1936 Alexei Mozhaev has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, landscapes, worked in oil painting, pencil drawings, and watercolors. In 1946 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists. His solo exhibitions were in Leningrad (1982, 1989), Saint Petersburg (2008), and city of Pushkin (2010). Alexei Mozhaev the most known for his portrait paintings. His individual style has development from an academic manner, based on strict objectivism and typing, towards a stronger expression in the transfer of individual characteristics and refinement of color. Painting by Alexei Mozhaev is based upon the loud light and shadow contrasts, exquisite plain-air transfer and tonal relationships. In further his painting style become more decorative and general. Over the 30 years Mozhaev combined his creative activities with pedagogical work. He taught in Tavricheskaya Art School and the Secondary School of Arts (now the Artistic Lyceum named after Boris Ioganson of the Russian Academy of Arts). Alexei Vasilievich Mozhaev died on 23 January 1994 in Saint Petersburg. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, England, China, Japan, in the U.S., France and other countries.

Alexei Mozhaev is recorded as having received Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". Mozhaev worked in painting.