Обложка журнала. №4, 1945
Владимир Михайлович Конашевич (1888-1963) - русский и советский художник, график; художественное образование получил в Московском училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества (1908-1913); с 1915 года жил и работал в Петрограде (с 1924 года - Ленинград); сотрудничал с издательствами "Радуга", "Госиздат", "Academia", "Детиздат" - иллюстрировал произведения Афанасия Фета, Ивана Тургенева, Антона Чехова, Михаила Зощенко, Антуана Франсуа Прево (фр. Antoine François Prévost), Самуила Маршака, Корнея Чуковского, Ганса Христиана Андерсена, Шарля Перро, Александра Пушкина, Владимира Даля; рисовал для детских журналов "Ёж", "Чиж", "Костёр", "Мурзилка", "Весёлые картинки". Для его иллюстрации типична затейливо-декоративная графическая манера, склонность к шутливой гротескности, колористическая выразительность, сочетание реальности и фантазии, восходящей к графике "Мира искусства".
Обложка журнала. №11, 1945
Обложка журнала. №1, 1948
Обложка журнала. №3, 1949
Обложка журнала. №7, 1953
Прятки. Журнал "Мурзилка" №10, 1944
Корней Чуковский, "Бибигон". Журнал "Мурзилка" №2, 1946
Корней Чуковский, "У доктора Айболита". Журнал "Мурзилка" №1, 1955
Самуил Маршак, "Пирог". Журнал "Мурзилка" №12, 1956
Владимир Даль, "Старик-годовик". Журнал "Мурзилка" №1, 1962
Корней Чуковский, "Чудо-дерево". Журнал "Мурзилка" №4, 1962
Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich (1888-1963) was a Russian and Soviet artist; he received his art education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1908-1913); from 1915 the artist lived and worked in Petrograd (since 1924 - Leningrad). Vladimir Konashevich collaborated with the publishing houses Raduga, Gosizdat, Academia, Detizdat and illustrated the works of Afanasy Fet, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Antoine François Prévost, Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Dahl. Konashevich also worked as an illustrator for children's magazines such as Yozh (Hedgehog), Chizh (Siskin), Kostyor (Bonfire), Murzilka, and Vesyolye kartinki (Funny Pictures). His works were distinguished by a tendency towards playful grotesqueness and an intricately decorative manner, harking back to the graphics of the St. Petersburg artistic movement Mir Iskusstva (World of Art).
"Before I take up a pencil, I have to figure everything out in advance, mentally imagine the finished drawing in all its details. What you have in mind always seems much more significant and interesting to your mind's eye than what appears later on paper: there is always a gap between dreams and reality. This is where the feeling of not being completely successful comes from. For me, there is no miracle, as for someone whose images are born in the process of work and sometimes unexpected finds arise. For me, there are no such surprises. The only thing that is unforeseen is that which is not thought out to the end. In my works, there are none of those "accidents" that are usually considered signs of an artistic temperament. My drawings are always compositionally balanced and precise, even in those cases when they seem unfinished to others. At the same time, despite the rationalistic basis of my art, I do not have ready-made schemes and norms into which I would squeeze my compositions. The foundations of my compositions (compositions of form and color) follow 'always from the content (not necessarily only literary) and is conditioned by this content'" - About Myself and my Business by Vladimir Konashevich
Дополнительно: Владимир Михайлович Конашевич | журнал "Чиж"; сайт "Недописанная страница" (о жизни и творчестве Самуила Яковлевича Маршака); Некоммерческая электронная библиотека «ImWerden» | Владимир Михайлович Конашевич | О себе и своем деле; Бибиография художника на сайте «Лаборатории Фантастики»; Большая российская энциклопедия: Конашевич Владимир Михайлович; Артонлайн. Энциклопедия русских художников