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1952 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1952 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. Events * March 2 — In Moscow on Gogol Boulevard a monument was unveiled to great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). Authors of the monument sculptor N. Tomsky, architect L. Golubovsky. * In Leningrad Repin Institute of Arts graduates known in the future artists Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev, Irina Baldina, Abram Grushko, Boris Lavrenko, Vladimir Chekalov, Piotr Fomin, Oleg Lomakin, Valentin Sidorov, and others. * November 2 — In Nizhny Novgorod on Gorky Square a monument was unveiled to great Russian writer Maxim Gorky (1868–1936). Authors of the monument sculptor V. Mukhina, architect V. Lebedev and P. Shteller. * November 5 — The Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1952 was opened in Leningrad in the State Russian Museum. The participants were Vsevolod Bazhenov, Nikolai Baskakov, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Buchkin, Nina Veselova, Rostislav V ...
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Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в;  – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s (" Chelkash", " Old Izergil", and " Twenty-Six Men and a Girl"); plays '' The Philistines'' (1901), '' The Lower Depths'' (1902) and '' Children of the Sun'' (1905); a poem, " The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, '' My Childhood, In the World, My Universities'' (1913–1923); and a novel, ''Mother'' (1906). Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, and ''Mother'' has ...
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Elena Kostenko
Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (russian: Еле́на Миха́йловна Косте́нко; 9 August 1926 – 26 September 2019) was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings. Biography Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was born on 9 August 1926 in Leningrad. Her father, Mikhail Kostenko, was an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, one of the major organizers of Soviet science. In 1938, Elena Kostenko entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which is trained with a break until 1946. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb. Together with Elena Kostenko in Leningrad Secondary Art School stu ...
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Ruben Zakharian
Ruben Agasievich Zakharian (russian: Рубе́н Ага́сиевич Захарья́н, 14 July 1901 – 25 May 1992) was a Russian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting. Early life and education Ruben Agasievich Zakharian was born on 14 July 1901 in Tiflis, Russia Empire. In 1921 Ruben Zakharian entered in Tiflis drawing school (since 1922 – Tbilisi Academy of Arts), where he studied of Evgeny Lansere and Boris Fogel. In 1923 he moved to Petrograd to continue art education in VKHUTEIN (The Leningrad Higher Institute of Industrial Art, formerly known as the High Art School under Imperial Academy of Arts; since 1944 known as the Repin Institute of Arts), where he studied under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Karev. In 1927 Ruben Zakharian graduated from the Leningrad Vkhutein. His graduation work was painting "Athletes".''Anniversary ...
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Vecheslav Zagonek
Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek (russian: Вячесла́в Фра́нцевич Заго́нек; December 19, 1919 – June 24, 1994) was a Soviet, Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes and genre paintings. Biography Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek was born December 19, 1919 in the city Irkutsk, East Siberia. In 1927 Vecheslav Zagonek with parents comes to Leningrad. In 1936–1939 he studied at the Secondary Art School under All-Russian Academy of Art. In 1939 Vecheslav Zagonek was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Winter War and as antiaircrafter in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies. After demobilization in 1945 Vecheslav Zagonek entered at the ...
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Vladimir Gorb
Vladimir Alexandrovich Gorb (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Го́рб; December 31, 1903 – October 20, 1988) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. He lived and worked in Leningrad as professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of Russian Federation, and was member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. He is regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings and Art teaching. Biography Vladimir Gorb was born December 31, 1903, in the city Odessa, Russian Empire. In 1920, Gorb enters the Odessa Art Institute, studied of K. Kostandi, P. Volokidin, T. Frayerman, M. Zamechek. In 1926, after graduation, Gorb came to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Vhutein (Higher Art and Technical Institute, the name carried from 1922 to 1930). Studied under Alexander Savinov, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Karev, Kuz ...
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Rostislav Vovkushevsky
Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky (russian: Ростисла́в Ива́нович Вовкуше́вский; March 22, 1917 – August 14, 2000) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky was born March 22, 1917, in the city of Polotsk, Vitebsk Province, Belorussia, Russian Empire in family of railway engineer. In 1925 his family comes to Leningrad. In 1936 after graduation high school Rostislav Vovkushevsky entered at the Department of Architecture of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied of noted art educators Pavel Shillingovsky, Ivan Bilibin, Konstantin Rudakov, and Leonid Ovsannikov. In February 1942, together with the institute, h ...
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Nina Veselova
Nina Leonidovna Veselova (russian: Ни́на Леони́довна Весело́ва; January 6, 1922, Petrograd, Soviet Russia – March 3, 1960, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, Doctor of art-criticism (1954), who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Veselova was born January 6, 1922, in Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg), Soviet Russia. From 1934 to 1941 Veselova studied at the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Fine Arts, where she was student of Vladimir Gorb, Piotr Kazakov, Leonid Sholokhov, and Alexander Zaitsev. In 1941, after graduating, Veselova entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After the beginning of the German-Soviet War, Veselova continued studying in the institute until its evacuation to ...
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Piotr Buchkin
Piotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (russian: Пё́тр Дми́триевич Бучки́н; 22 January 1886 – 21 June 1965) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR. Buchkin lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member and one of the founders of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait painting. Biography Piotr Buchkin was born on 22 January 1886 in Sofronovo village, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire. In 1891 his family moved to the city of Uglich on the Volga River. First drawing lessons future artist had received from local icon painters. In 1899 Piotr Buchkin comes to Saint Petersburg. He engaged in School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz, where studied of Nikolai Koshelev. In 1904 Piotr Buchkin entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, w ...
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Piotr Belousov
Piotr Petrovich Belousov (russian: Пётр Петро́вич Белоу́сов; May 3, 1912 – March 31, 1989) was a Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist, painter, art teacher, professor of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, People's Artist of the USSR, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, being most famous for his portraits and historical paintings. Biography Piotr Petrovich Belousov was born May 3, 1912 in the port city Berdiansk, located on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, of south-east Ukraine, Russian Empire. In 1929, Piotr Belousov met with Brodsky and by his invitation comes to Leningrad to continue his study. He engaged in drawing and painting under Brodsky leadership, as well as in the studio AKhRs and the Community of Artists. In 1933, Piotr Belousov entered the first ...
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Nikolai Baskakov (painter)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Баска́ков; May 8, 1918 – October 14, 1993) was a Soviet painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting. Biography Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov was born May 8, 1918, in a village seven kilometers from the Astrakhan city on the Volga River. His father, Nikolai Evlampievich Baskakov, was a carpenter. His mother, Evdokiya Vasilievna, was a housewife raising their children – nine sons and two daughters. From 1933 to 1939 Baskakov studied under the Russian art educator Pavel Vlasov in the Astrakhan School of Art. In 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army, having served in the Far East. There, in 194 ...
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Vsevolod Bazhenov
Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov (russian: Все́волод Андре́евич Баже́нов; February 18, 1909 – August 2, 1986) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Russians, Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the ''Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation'', and regarded as a known representative of the ''Leningrad School of Painting, Leningrad school of painting'', most known for his landscape paintings. Biography Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov was born on February 18, 1909 in the town Serdobsk, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire into an artistic family. His father was an artist and taught in a real school. He became the first teacher of Vsevolod. Later he studied in Serdobsk art studio of artists ''A. Gofert'' and ''N. Kuzmin''. Besides drawing and painting, Bazhenov was a music lover. His mother Evgenia Nikovaevna was a pianist. Bazhenov graduated high school in 1928 and moved to Leningrad. Between the years of ...
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