Andrey Gennadievich Pozdeev

He was born in the village of Nizhny Ingash, Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the family of a postal employee. As a young child, Andrey began to draw, and throughout his life he could not imagine his life without drawing. In 1937, Pozdeev took part in the regional children's drawing competition dedicated to the centenary of Pushkin's memory, and received a cash prize for the portrait of the poet.

Pozdeev is a graduate of the Krasnoyarsk V. I. Surikov Art School and a participant in numerous exhibitions. At the very beginning of the war, Andrei Gennadievich began working at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant. For leaving to live with his mother and grandmother, who lived in the village of Tyukhtete at that time, he received 6 months in prison under the "Stalinist decree." In the colony, he constantly painted, decorating wall newspapers and various "corners".

In 1943, he volunteered for the front, served in the Far Eastern Fleet. He was demobilized due to the fact that he was seriously ill with tuberculosis. Pozdeev returned to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, to Minusinsk, where his family lived at that time. Thanks to a miracle, Andrey Gennadievich was able to partially overcome the disease and continued to live, being in an endless creative search, and draw.

Since 1956, Andrey Pozdeev began working at the Art Foundation as a copy artist. In the autumn of the same year, Pozdeev participated in an exhibition of works by Siberian artists, which was held in Irkutsk, and was accepted as a candidate member of the Krasnoyarsk Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.

In the 60s and 70s, Andrey painted a lot from nature in Krasnoyarsk and its surroundings. At the same time, the artist painted a large series of works called "Kaltat" (after the name of the river in the Krasnoyarsk Stolby Nature Reserve).

Andrey Pozdeev participated in regional and zonal exhibitions (there were 31 of them), from 1964 to 1997 11 of his personal exhibitions were also held: Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, Tallinn, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zelenogorsk. The artist appreciated the exhibitions, they helped to summarize what he had done and find new creative approaches. In 1983, two of his paintings, Dandelions and Kuzmicheva Polyana, were presented at the Soviet Russia exhibition.

Pozdeev loved to paint flowers. Over the years, he depicted them in different ways and created a huge number of paintings called "Bouquet" or "Flowers".

In the 80s, Andrei Gennadievich's reading circle included the Bible and books on Sacred history. Esoteric literature was also of great interest. In the new workshop, which the artist received in 1980, as a result of rethinking this literature, a series of works was created, which included such paintings as "Golgotha", "Prayer for the Chalice", "Creation of the World", the cycle "Human Life" and others. In the 1990s, exhibitions were organized in Moscow and St. Petersburg (the State Russian Museum, 1996), albums were released, several television programs were created, and articles were published in central art magazines.

Andrey Gennadievich was a sincere and searching man, his works at different times were distinguished by their technique of execution, their peculiar vision and depiction of reality. Many of his works were condemned by some colleagues in the art department, the public, and people accustomed to the clarity and tradition of drawing. But there were, of course, fans of his talent. Pozdeev had followers, those who studied, comprehending his style of writing. Andrey Gennadievich himself drew without imitating anyone, always following his feelings and emotions.

Pozdeev's works trace almost all the main stages of world art: realism - impressionism - post-impressionism - Fauvism - abstractionism. For the artist, this was not following the trends, it was not an imitation, but the embodiment of his personal consciousness. For him, these were the natural steps of personal creative growth.

Pozdeev's official recognition began, perhaps, with his first solo exhibition in Moscow in 1993. As a result, he was nominated for the State Prize. In 1998, Andrey Pozdeev was awarded a Diploma and a silver medal from the Russian Academy of Arts.

From 1992 to the present, 12 personal albums with reproductions of A. G. Pozdeev's paintings have been published. His works are kept in various museums around the world, including the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. A fairly large number of the artist's paintings are in the collection of the Krasnoyarsk State Art Museum named after V. I. Surikov.

A. G. Pozdeev died in his workshop in Krasnoyarsk on July 12, 1998. He was buried at the Badalyk cemetery in Krasnoyarsk.

In memory of the great artist, an original bronze monument to Pozdeev was erected in the historical center of Krasnoyarsk in 2000, and a small museum was organized at Krasnoyarsk Secondary School No. 69 (3 Shumyatsky St.).