Alexander Aksinin


Alexander Aksinin was a Ukrainian printmaker and painter. His sophisticated etching technique, precision and perfectionist attention to details earned him the sobriquet the “Dürer of Lviv”. Art critics hailed him as “a 20th century Piranesi” for his dramatic and elaborate constructs.
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Early life and education

Alexander Aksinin was born to military cartographer Dmitriy Aksinin and railroad official Ludmila Aksinina. In 1972 he graduated from the Ukrainian Institute of Printing, where he specialized in Graphics Arts.

Career

From 1972 to 1977, Aksinin worked as an art editor in a publishing house, served in the Soviet army and then worked as an art designer in an industrial design office.
After 1977, he focused entirely on his art, in particular in the fields of printed and drawn graphics. Aksinin's solo exhibitions were held in Tallinn, Estonia, Lodz, Poland, Warsaw, Lviv and others. He also took part in various group exhibitions in the USSR and abroad.

Death

On 3 May 1985, on his way back from Tallinn, Alexander Aksinin died in a plane crash near Zolochiv, close to Lviv.

Art

A. Aksinin made 343 printed graphics including 3 unfinished works, about 200 unique drawn graphics in mixed techniques, as well as five oil paintings.

Exhibitions

Aksinin regularly participated in the International Biennale of Small Graphics Forms in Łódź, where he was awarded Honorable Medals in 1979 and 1985.
In 2015 his etching series "Boschiana" was included in the permanent exposition of the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.