1937 He was
born in 1937 in
Omsk, to a family of painters
1951-1956 Studied at the Moscow V.I.Surikov Art School
1953
His watercolors first published in "Pioneer"
Magazine.
1954
Began showing his work in art exhibitions.
1956-1962
Studied at the Moscow V.I.Surikov National Art Institute
1962-1974
Worked as a policeman, a hospital, a theater fire
safety officer.
1974-1980
Created a series of
drawings titled
"Autographs of War”
1974 Admitted to the Moscow Artists Union
1978-1981
Focused on lithographs, etchings and portraiture.
1981-1982
Created "А farewell look."
1982-1986
Created "Delusion of persecution."
1987
Awarded the "Struggle for Peace” medal for "Autographs of War".
1989-2001
Traveled extensively to Afghanistan. Based on his experiences, created series
"A Prayer for
Peace."
1992-2006 Created "Communal Apartment Memories».
1994-2000
Visited former Nazi concentration camps. Created the series "Requiem".
1996
He was awarded the title "Honorary Artist of the Russian Federation" for "Requiem”
1997
"Autographs of War” nominated for the
Russian Federation National Prize
1999-2004
Trips to the 124th Laboratory
in Rostov-on-Don. Created the
series of drawings
"International Terrorism”
2002-2004 Created
the
series "The Mentally Ill of Russia."
2003 He was awarded the title of
"Honorary Master
of Arts of the Russian Federation” for "A Prayer for Peace".
2004
"Requiem," "Autographs of War", "A Prayer for Peace",
"International Terrorism"
and "The Mentally Ill of
Russia" were combined into the
series "LISTS of SORROW". He was awarded
the Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts for a series of easel painting from the "LISTS of SORROW" series.
2004 Two trips to Grozny. Created a series of drawings
"I Loved this City."
2008 Trip to New York for the opening
of a one man exhibition
"Sketches in Memory of Holocaust
Victims and their Liberators " at
the UN headquarters.
2008
"Requiem" exhibited at
Endicott College in Massachusetts.
2008
September-
October. A trip to the destroyed
Tskhinvali. Created the series "The South Ossetia Tragedy."
2009
Worked
on the series "Repentance" at
the St. Gennady Monastery the Yaroslavl Region and
the on the Solovki
Islands .
2010
He was awarded the
honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian
Federation”
2011
He was elected a corresponding
member of the Russian Academy of Arts
2011 He
died at the First
Municipal Hospital on March 15th
after a serious illness. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery.
Gennady
Dobrov participated in 68 art
exhibitions (Moscow-based,
regional, one-man, all-Union
and international).
He has
more than 350 publications and works
in the media.
His works hang in the Central Museum of the
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, the
Central History Museum and the
Karlshorst Surrender Museum
in Berlin.
