Alexei Maximov (born 1952) is a

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-born

oil painter Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...

, enamellist and

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painter of European royals. He is known as a painter on canvas and enamel and a graphic artist, working in the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life. Alexei Maximov's works are in many art museums in Russia and abroad. In 1987, he became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia; in total, his works have been presented at more than 100 art exhibitions around the world. Larisa Peshekhonova of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin described Maximov as an artist who "transformed the traditions of the past to create isown unique artistic style and world images."

Career

In his work Maximov has used traditional methods of enamel art production, without contemporary digital set ovens. During the late 20th-century, Maximov led a resurgence of enamel-based art in Russia. The first exhibition of Maximov's work occurred at the Podolsk Town Museum in 1979, and the second was held in 1979 at the State Literature Museum in Moscow. Another exhibition Maximov's work took place at the Kremlin Armoury. In 2012 an exhibition of his work was held in the William Kent House in London, showing his enamel miniature portraits of members of the royal families of the UK, the Netherlands, and Norway. This included the twentieth anniversary of his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as well as her

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. Following the exhibition of the works, which can only be seen by appointment, they were put up for auction. Queen Elizabeth II recommended that Princess Anne sit for Maximov the following week, and Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother later that month. His work has been a part of around one hundred art exhibitions.

Gallery

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Museums

The artist's works are presented in the collections of museums: *

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. Moscow * The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg *

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. Moscow *State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg * State Literary Museum. Moscow * Literature Museum of Dostoyevsky, St Petersburg * The Museum & Nature Reserve «Tsaritsyno». Moscow *All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts. Moscow * Enamel Museum Limoges. France * Collection of Queen Elizabeth II, London

Personal life

Alexei Maximov spent his childhood and youth in the Moscow region village of Aleksandrovka. In 1980 he moved from Moscow to

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). From 1989 to 2000 he lived in Europe -

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Awards

In 1982 the artist was awarded the International Award for Remarkable Artistic Achievement on the III Quadriennale of Applied Arts in Erfurt, Germany. In 1988 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Leningrad Committee of The Union of Russian Artists. In the same year, the miniature "Vernissage", after receiving the purchase prize, was placed in the exposition of the Enamel Museum in Limoges (France

References

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