About
Alexander Mikhailovich Lytkin
Printmaker, book artist, painter. A master of lithography and the bookplate. Lives and works in St Petersburg.
Born
12 August 1954, Leningrad
Education
Graphic art faculty of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1982
Union of Artists
St Petersburg Union of Artists, since 1994
Teaching
Lithography at the Repin Academy of Arts. Headed the drawing and painting department of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts
Books
More than forty illustrated and designed editions
Awards
Gold medal of the Union of Artists of Russia, 2023. Honorary diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia
From an essay by Dmitry Severyukhin
Catalogue of the exhibition Alexander Lytkin. Book Graphics, Library of Book Graphics, 2024. In Russian.
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Alexander Lytkin belongs to those artists who represent the contemplative, symbolic and fantastic, or rather metaphysical, line in art.
Recognition
Awards from international ex libris competitions and lithography biennales.
- 2024
- First prize, 3rd International Ex Libris Competition, Granada, Spain
- 2024
- Diploma, 4th International Lithography Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2023
- Gold medal of the Union of Artists of Russia
- 2021
- First place in the ex libris category, 1st International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms Monuments of World Culture, Yekaterinburg
- 2021
- First place, Dante Alighieri ex libris competition, Varese, Italy
- 2020
- Second place, 27th International Biennial of Contemporary Ex Libris, Malbork, Poland
- 2019
- Laureate, 17th International Competition of Small Graphics and Ex Libris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
- 2018
- Laureate, 37th FISAE World Ex Libris Congress, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2011
- Laureate, 1st International Triennial White Nights, St Petersburg
Works in collections
- Research Library of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg
- Vyatka Art Museum named after the Vasnetsov brothers, Kirov
- Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M. A. Vrubel
- Vologda Regional Picture Gallery
- Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
- Kuzbass Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo
- Sakhalin Regional Art Museum, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev, Bishkek
- Museum of Ex Libris and Miniature Books, Moscow
- National Library of Catalonia, Barcelona
- Fengyue Museum of Russian Art, Harbin
Solo exhibitions
- 2024
- Angle of View, Artmuza Museum of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg
- 2024
- Book Graphics, Library of Book Graphics, St Petersburg
- 2023
- Museum of Ex Libris and Miniature Books, Moscow
- 2023
- Graphics, Anikushin Children's Art School, Kronstadt
- 2022
- Ashes Knocking at Human Hearts, Museum of Fine Arts, Veliky Novgorod
- 2022
- Arka exhibition hall of the Repin Academy of Arts, St Petersburg
- 2016
- Talant exhibition centre, Kolpino
- 1996
- Lapa gallery, Riga