Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov

Born in Moscow, Ivanov was a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1955) and Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958).

A recognized master of political posters, he worked as a painter and artist of cinema.

In 1929 he graduated from the Moscow State Technical College of Fine Arts, where he was trained at the studio of Dmitry Kardovsky.

The same year he entered the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad, from which he graduated in 1933.

While a student, he began working as a poster artist of Izogiz.