Artist Alexi Zeitsev | Художник Алексей Зайцев

Artist Alexi Zeitsev

Born in 1959 in Ryazan. At the age of 12 he moved to Moscow. The artist made his first steps in his work thanks to the support of his aunt, an honored artist of the USSR. Alexey Zaitsev graduated from the art faculty named. Ulyanova at the Union of Journalists of the USSR with a degree in Book Graphics (1983). Since the 80s he began to exhibit at home and abroad. His works have been shown at exhibition venues in Hungary, Germany, Georgia, Indonesia, Switzerland and other countries. In the 2000s, paintings by Alexei Zaitsev were repeatedly exhibited at the Moscow Central House of Artists. Since 2005, the artist has been successfully collaborating with a private gallery in Florida.

Alexey Zaitsev works in an impressionistic manner, preferring a palette knife as a tool. This technique led to the appearance of a large brushstroke characteristic of the artist's work. Among the main subjects of Alexei Zaitsev's work are Moscow and the Moscow region, the sea, women, children and animals. Alexey Zaitsev's paintings are in private collections in Russia and abroad. They are kept in the official collection of Boris Yeltsin, the collection of the former American ambassador Robert Strauss, the Russian embassies in Ireland and Hungary, the collections of large companies such as Bayer AG and Rand Xerox. Alexey Zaitsev's works have also been acquired by the Illinois Institute for Russian Economics and Culture (USA), a private gallery in Madrid, and an art centre in Ireland.