Dobrokovskii Mechislav Vasilevich
Industrial landscape.

Industrial landscape.
Year: 1920s.
Technique: Ink, pen on paper.
Size: 14х15.

Monogram lower right.

Dobrokovskii Mechislav Vasilevich (1895-1937).

One of Easel painter members, participator of I and III exhibitions. Studied at Moscow Vkhutemas (1923-1924), in the beginning of 1930s studied at Leningrad Vkhutemas. Member-founder of “October” Association (1928-1930), was a leader of Red committee “October”. Designed and illustrated such books as: “Red oil” of A. Kosterin (1923, Publishing house “Young guards”), “Miracle fish” of N.I. Komkolov (1928), “Forest lake” of N.P. Plavilschikov (1929), “Bumps” of A.S. Novikova-Priboi (1930) and others. Designed covers for the following magazines: “Give” (1929, N3), “Artists’ brigade” (1931, N 5-6). From 1923 was a permanent employee of “Godless man on the shopfloor” magazine (“Godless man”), where he worked with Deineka, Mor, Cheremnoi. Became friend with D. Moor and partly thanks to his patronage Dobrokovskii started making posters. Made posters “Kave-blacksmith” (1921), “Song of a collective” (1928), “We are going under a full head of steam on the way to industrialization of socialism” (1931). In 1925 Dobrokovskii was awarded with a gold medal and diploma at a Paris exhibition of painterly and decorative art for his poster. In the beginning of 1930s became a member of Book and poster association. Participated in many exhibitions. The artists works are kept in the best Russian museums, including Tretyakov State gallery and Russian State Museum.