Pyaskovskiy Mikhail Grigoryevich (1925-2012)
Bay night
1958
60 х 100 cm
Oil on canvas
Mikhail Pyaskovsky - People's Artist of Russia (2007). In 1943-1945 he participated in the Great Patriotic War and was awarded medals. Since 1953 he lived and worked in Kaliningrad. In 1987 - head of the creative group ‘Science and Space’ in the House of Creativity ‘Goryachiy Klyuch’. In 1988 - head of the creative group in the House of Creativity ‘Baikal’. From 1961-1999 - repeated participation in the work of creative groups of the ‘Academic Dacha’. Delegate of I, II, III, IV, V, VI Congresses of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR; II, III, IV, V, VII Congresses of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Member of the Board of the Union of Artists of Russia.
Works of the artist are in regional museums of Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, as well as in museums of Riga (Latvia), Vilnius, Klaipeda (Lithuania), Gdansk, Warsaw (Poland), Glasgow (Scotland).