Konstantin Aleksandrovich Vialov (1900–1976) was a 20th-century

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artist.

Biography

Vialov studied textile design at the

Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry Russian State University of Design and Applied Arts (Stroganov University) () informally named Stroganovka (Строгановка) is one of the oldest Russian schools for the industrial, monumental and decorative art and design. The university i ...

, Russia from 1914 to 1917. After the

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, he continued his studies at the state art and technical schools Svomas and Vkhutemas, studying under

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, Aristarkh Lentulov, and David Shterenberg. From 1922 to 1925, Vialov served as head of the Studio of Visual Arts for Teenagers, operated by

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. Vialov joined the

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in 1932, the year of its founding, and from 1941 to 1945 he designed a series of posters for the

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(TASS), which were exhibited at the

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in 2011 as part of the exhibition ''Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945.'' Vialov died in Moscow in 1976. Vialov painted the following paintings-River Transport in Aid of the Front, All Hail the Soviet Fleet, and Hail the Fighting Tribe.

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