Alexander Semyonovich Vedernikov (russian: Александр Семёнович Ведерников; 23 November 1898 - 21 January 1975) was a
Russian artist. He was born in the city of
Gorodets in
Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. He studied at the Nizhny Novgorod art workshops (1921–24) with
Alexander V. Kuprin and
Artur Fonvizin, and at the Leningrad Vkhutemas-Vhutein (1924–28) with
Osip Braz
Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (russian: Осип Эммануилович Браз; 16 January 1873 in Odessa – 6 November 1936 near Paris) was a Russian-Jewish realist painter.
Biography
He began his art education in Odessa, now Ukraine, and conti ...
and
Alexei Karev
Alexei Eremeevich Karev (1879, Shilovka – 1942, Leningrad) was a Russian people, Russian painter and graphic artist.
Karev studied icon-painting studio under Fyodor Korneyev in Saratov in 1896 and then until 1898 he attended the Alexey Bogolyubo ...
.
He was a member of the Society "" (Круг художников) (1928-30) and from 1939 he worked at the
Leningrad Experimental Lithographic Workshop.
Identified with the
Leningrad landscape school, his work was exhibited in numerous shows of Leningrad artists in the postwar decades. His paintings are preserved in the
Russian Museum
The State Russian Museum (russian: Государственный Русский музей), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III), on ...
, St. Petersburg;
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow;
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...
, Moscow.
He died in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in 1975.
References
Russian painters
1898 births
1975 deaths
People from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Burials at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
Soviet painters
Russian landscape painters
Painters from Saint Petersburg
Repin Institute of Arts alumni
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