Ilya Bogdesko
Ilya Trofimovich Bogdesko (Russian: Илья́ Трофи́мович Богде́ско; 20 April 1923 in Botushany near Rîbnița, Ukrainian SSR[1] – 29 March 2010 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet and Moldovan graphic artist, People's Painter of the USSR (1963), member of the Academy of Arts (1988).
Participant of the Great Patriotic War.[2] Drafted into the Red Army was in 1942.
One of the most famous works, illustrations for the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels, uses in the technique of engraving on metal cutter, widespread in the days of Swift. For this work at the National competition Book Art in 1980, Bogdesko was awarded the diploma of Ivan Fyodorov.
Over the course of five years, For about five years Bogdesko created a series of 33 illustrations for the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote. He illustrated the Ion Creangă book Punguța cu doi bani (Wallet with Two Coins).
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- 1923 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century Russian painters
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Repin Institute of Arts alumni
- People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Republic (Moldova)
- Moldovan painters
- Russian male painters
- Soviet painters
- Soviet people of World War II
- Typographers and type designers
- Romanian people of Moldovan descent
- Russian people of Romanian descent
- 20th-century Russian male artists