Yudin Lev Aleksandrovich Biography
Lev Yudin was born in 1903 in Vitebsk. From a young age he devoted himself to paper carving taught by his mother, constantly creating shapes of different animals while playing with children. At the same time as school he began to frequent the workshop of KS Malevich, then moving with him to St. Petersburg in 1922. Lev, between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, became part of a group of painters and sculptors who embraced realism. Among his colleagues, the artist had a special talent, a rare way of depicting figures taken from his mother. He was able to create 1/2 cm tall silhouettes of animals or people inserted into complex compositions. His art is distinguished by the precision and elegance of the figures characterized by decorative and rhythmic elements. In 1928, Yudin, together with other artists and writers such as V. Lebedev, V. By Cordovan, Y. Vasnetsov, P. Sokolov, B. Malachowski, V. Ermolaeva, D. Kharms, N. Oleynikov, N. By Zabolotskii, V. Mayakovsky, A. Vvedensky and A. Krimmer collaborated on the famous magazines "Academy Marshak" "Siskin" and "Hedgehog". The artist's works have been exhibited in Dresden, Brussels and St. Petersburg. A solo exhibition of Lev Yudin's work was held in 2003 at the Pushkin Museum of Contemporary Art "Tsarskoselskaya Collection". In 1941 the artist died in his first battle in one of the bloodiest places on the Leningrad front. Despite having received a "reservation" from the Artists' Union on the eve of the battle he refused to use it, considering it a betrayal of the soldiers of his platoon.
