Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, 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 ...
, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives 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 ...
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[''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 402, 403, 445.] most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, (; November 5, Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._24_October.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O._S._24_October">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Old_Styl ...
(early 1930s),
Yaroslav Nikolaev
Yaroslav Sergeevich Nikolaev (russian: Ярослав Серге́евич Николаев; April 30, 1899, Šiauliai, Russian Empire — July 1, 1978, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Art worker of Russian Federation (195 ...
(1945) and
Mikhail Nesterov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of ...
(1936).
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Fine Art of Leningrad
The fine art of Leningrad is an important component of Russian Soviet art—in the opinion of the art historians Vladimir Gusev and Vladimir Leniashin, "one of its most powerful currents". This widely used term embraces the creative lives and th ...
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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 ...
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List of 20th-century Russian painters
This is a list of 20th-century Russian painters of the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, and Russian Empire, both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes painters who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and tho ...
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List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
This is a list of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (founded 2 August 1932 as the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, since 1959 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Acquired its current name after ...
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Saint Petersburg 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 ...
References
Sources
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''Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.18.
* ''Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.4. Кн.1.'' М., Искусство, 1983. С.145.
* ''Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.45.
1906 births
1991 deaths
20th-century Russian painters
Painters from Saint Petersburg
People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists
Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg) alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Leningrad School artists
Socialist realist artists
Russian landscape painters
Russian realist painters
20th-century Russian women artists
Russian women painters
Soviet realist painters
Soviet women artists
20th-century women painters
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