Yumashev Andrey Borisovich

Professional pilot, he always wanted to be an artist and an architect, and started his artistic education attending classes at the Society for Encouragement of Artists before the Revolution. In the 1930-es, Yumashev have met I.I. Mashkov, P.A. Korin, N.P. Romadin, P.P. Konchalovsky, R.R. Falk, A.V. Fonvizin, and later V.V. Sterligov. This circle of friends determined Yumashev’s artistic future. In 1946 A.B. Yumashev joined the Moscow Department of the Artists Union. He had his one-man shows in the 1980-es in Moscow, at the Vorontsov’s Palace in Alupka, in the Obninsk museum, and in Vancouver (Canada). The artist’s works are in the in the Tretyakov State Gallery, the Bakhrushin State Central Theater Museum, Smolensk Art Museum, Obninsk museum, and in many other public and private collections.