Boris Alexandrovich Fogel (russian: Борис Александрович Фогель) (January 18, 1872 in

Buynaksk Buynaksk (russian: Буйна́кск; kum, Шура / Темирхан-Шура, ''Şura / Temirxan-Şura'') is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus on the Shura-Ozen River, southwest of ...

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– 1961 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 ...

) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of the Soviet Artists, and a professor of painting at the

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who played an important role in the formation of the

Leningrad School of Painting The Leningrad School of Painting (russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was uni ...

.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' St Petersburg, NP-Print, 2007. P.356-360, 362, 367, 368, 371—373, 389, 392.

Biography

Boris Alexandrovich Fogel was born January 18, 1872, in

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. His father, a career military colonel, had spent most of his life involved in campaigns for the conquest of the

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. His mother, née Olga Flovitskaya, was a close relative of the artist

Konstantin Flavitsky Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky (russian: Константин Дмитриевич Флавицкий; – ) was a Russian painter. Biography Flavitsky received his art education at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and was a student of Pr ...

. In 1880, after the death of his father, Boris moved with his mother to

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. While studying in high school, he engaged in drawing at the private studio of A. Zakharov. In 1891 Fogel moved to Moscow, where he joined the medical faculty at Moscow University. Concomitantly he continued his studies in painting, additionally benefiting from the advice of known artists

Vasily Polenov Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would c ...

Vladimir Makovsky Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский; 26 January (greg.: 7 February) 1846, Moscow – 21 February 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher. Biography Makovs ...

Konstantin Korovin Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (russian: Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин, first name often spelled Constantin; 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Youth and education Konstan ...

, and

Sergei Korovin Sergei Alekseyevich Korovin (russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Коро́вин; 19 August 1858, Moscow – 26 October 1908, Moscow) was a Russian Realist painter; the brother of Konstantin Korovin. Biography He was born into a ...

. He was then, for about a year, engaged in the private studio of

Leonid Pasternak Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born ''Yitzhok-Leib'', or ''Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak''; russian: Леони́д О́сипович Пастерна́к, 3 April 1862 ( N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the ...

. In 1896 Fogel lived and studied in Paris. After returning to

Saint Petersburg 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 ...

, Fogel joined the

Imperial Academy of Fine Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thr ...

, where he studied under the tutelage of Ilya Repin and P. O. Kovalevsky. In 1902 he graduated as an artist of painting, his graduate work named «An Evening». From 1934 until his death Fogel taught at the

. He was a member of the

Leningrad Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

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* ''Центральный Государственный Архив литературы и искусства. СПб''. Ф.78. Оп.3. Д.67. * ''Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1951 года. Каталог.'' — Л: Лениздат, 1951. — с.21. * ''Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1953 года. Каталог''. — Л: ЛССХ, 1953. — с.8. * ''1917 — 1957. Выставка произведений ленинградских художников. Каталог.'' — Л: Ленинградский художник, 1958. — с.33. * ''Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог.'' — Л: Художник РСФСР, 1959. — с.28. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fogel, Boris 1872 births 1961 deaths 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 20th-century Russian painters Soviet painters Socialist realist artists Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Painters from Saint Petersburg Leningrad School artists Russian portrait painters 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian male artists

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