Alexander Gavrilovich Budnikov (1914 - 1982)

Alexander Gavrilovich Budnikov

Alexander Gavrilovich Budnikov (Russian: Александр Гаврилович Будников) was a Soviet Ukrainian artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a battle painter.

During the Great Patriotic War Alexander Budnikov worked for a frontline newspaper, created posters and sketches from the battlefields. After the war he studied at the Kiev Art Institute, later became a teacher and professor at this institution. The artist worked in the genre of battle painting, and was also the author of a series of landscapes from different countries. His works are kept in museums in Ukraine, Russia and in private collections in Europe, the USA and Canada.