Galba Vladimir Aleksandrovich
Done. "Against irresponsibility - fight!" series.

Done. "Against irresponsibility - fight!" series.
Year: 1983.
Technique: Poster.
Size: 44х33.


Galba Vladimir Aleksandrovich (1908, KHARKOV - 1984, LENINGRAD).

Galba (present Halberstadt) Vladimir Alexandrovich Graph. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and the Union of Journalists of the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He studied in Leningrad with N. I. Kravchenko and A. A. Radakov (1924–1928). He did not receive a systematic art education. Since 1926, as a cartoonist, he collaborated in the newspapers Leningradskaya Pravda, Evening Leningrad, the magazines Neva, Ogonyok, Funny Pictures, and others. Since 1939 - the artist of the "Combat Pencil" association. In 1945–1946 he attended the Nuremberg trials as a correspondent artist. Was on creative business trips in France, England, Holland. Author of easel cartoons: "The Fuhrer in 1939" (1939), "Into the Abyss" (1941), "In the Office of the Chief Accountant" (1932), "Nazi Fruits (Still-muzzles)" (1944), "Help me get back on my feet "(1947), "Wolf Street" (1949), "Truman Calls on an Angel of Peace" (1950), "BBC Greyback Gelding" (1953), "Wall Street Chicken Farm" (1958); series "Sport in bourgeois countries" (1953-1958). The cartoons were published in the albums Blitz-Scream and Fritzvoy (M.-L., 1944), One Hundred Smiles (L., 1964), Atelier of Satirical Service (L., 1968). He made friendly caricatures, worked on posters, ex-libris. Worked in the field of book illustration; collaborated in publishing houses: Goslitizdat, Detgiz, "Soviet Writer", "Pravda" and others. Designed books: “What does our name mean. Dictionary of Names" (1940), "Wonder Tree" by K. I. Chukovsky (1944), "Protest of the Animals" by G. Romm (1945), "Knight of the Flaming Pestle" by F. Beaumont (1956), "Fables and Literary Parodies" A. M. Flit (1958; together with B. F. Semenov), "Family Chronicle" (1960), "On Taste" (1966) S. V. Mikhalkov and others. Since 1926 - participant of exhibitions (1st art exhibition of paintings of the Academy of Arts, Kostroma branch). Exhibited at exhibitions: caricatures of Moscow and Leningrad artists in Perm (1940), sketches of Leningrad artists (1945), works of Leningrad artists (1948, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1964), "Soviet book sign" (1962) in Leningrad, All-Union Art exhibitions (1951, 1960), Soviet satire (1952), "Soviet political poster for 50 years" (1967) in Moscow and others. Held a solo exhibition in Leningrad (1959). Creativity is represented in many museum collections, including the State Russian Museum.