Sergey Yakovlevich Lagutin (1911 - 2012)

Sergey Yakovlevich Lagutin

Sergey Yakovlevich Lagutin (Russian: Сергей Яковлевич Лагутин) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter, scenographer, teacher and art theorist.

Sergey Lagutin began his career in 1934 while serving in the army, where he first participated in an exhibition of military artists. Throughout his career, the artist designed theatrical performances and worked in theaters in East Germany and the USSR. His contributions to the field of art include the development of the program and methodology for teaching composition adopted in all art schools in Russia.