Retrospective Exhibition "In memory of Teacher. Exhibition of Saint Petersburg artists - students workshop of Alexander Osmerkin" (russian: Памяти учителя. Выставка петербургских художников - учеников мастерской А. А. Осмеркина) became one of the notable event in the Saint Petersburg exhibition live of 1997 year. The Exhibition took place in Saint Petersburg in the Memorial Museum of Nikolai A. Nekrasov. There were exhibited 44 art works from private collections created by 12 pupils of

Alexander Osmerkin Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin (; - June 25, 1953) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, and art teacher. He was a member of the Knave of Diamonds avant-garde group, AKhRR, and ''Society of Moscow Artists'' (OMKh) groups. Si ...

. All them graduated Repin Institute of Arts in 1930-1950s.

History and Organization

Exhibition was opened on November 5, and worked up to December 1, 1997. Catalog was published. The curator of exhibition was Nikolai Kononikhyn, collector and art critic.

Contributing Artists

There were exhibited art works of 12 painters - pupils of

, representatives of the Leningrad School:

Evgenia Antipova Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (russian: Евге́ния Петро́вна Анти́пова; 19 October 1917 – 27 January 2009) was a Russian Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and Art teacher, a member of the Saint Petersburg Unio ...

Evgenia Baykova Evgenia Vasilievna Baykova (russian: Евге́ния Васи́льевна Байко́ва; November 22, 1907 – 1997) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). Sh ...

Olga Bogaevskaya Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya (russian: О́льга Бори́совна Богае́вская, 25 October 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire – 30 November 2000, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist, who ...

Ivan Godlevsky Ivan Ivanovich Godlevsky (russian: Иван Иванович Годлевский; March 9, 1908 in Kholm Governorate, Russian Empire – August 20, 1998 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg ...

, Vera Lubimova,

Evsey Moiseenko Yevsey Yevseyevich Moiseyenko (russian: Евсе́й Евсе́евич Моисе́енко; – 29 November 1988) was a Soviet Russian painter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1970), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973) ...

, Nina Neratova, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov,

Gleb Savinov Gleb Savinov (russian: Гле́б Алекса́ндрович Сави́нов; September 27, 1915, Natalievka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – November 5, 2000, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet, Russian painter and art t ...

Elena Skuin Elena Petrovna Skuin (russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Скуи́нь, lv, Jeļena Skujiņa; April 2, 1908, Ekaterinodar, Russian Empire – 1986, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian–Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, a ...

Victor Teterin Victor Kuzmich Teterin (russian: Ви́ктор Кузьми́ч Тете́рин; October 25, 1922 in Bakharevo, Tver Province, Soviet Russia – October 1, 1991 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, and art teacher, who li ...

, .

Contributed Artworks

For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1940-1980s. Some of paintings were exhibited before, some paintings were shown in the first time. In general, the exhibition presented creation of famous masters - pupils of Alexander Osmerkin - in all genres of painting of 1940-1980s. Genre painting was represented of ''"Paint of Boats"'' by

, ''"At the Gulf"'' by

, ''"At the country cottage"'' by Lev Orekhov, ''Nevsky Prospekt'' by

, and some others. Portrait painting was represented of ''"Katya"'' by

, ''"Portrait of young woman"'' by

, ''"A Boy"'' by Vera Lubimova, ''"Natasha in a chaise longue. Gurzuf"'' by

, ''"A Boy in a fur hat"'' by Nina Neratova, and some others. Landscape painting was represented of ''"Romantic landscape"'', ''"Flowering Almond. A Pathway"'' by

, ''"Red House. Early Snow"'' by

, ''"Courtyard under snow"'', ''"Landscape with a fortress. Ancient Izborsk"'' by Sergei Osipov, ''"Pristannoe village. Towards evening"'', ''"Landscape with herd"'', ''"Shore of the Volkhov River"'' by

, ''"A Spring. View on the Smolenka River"'' by

, and some others. Still life painting was represented of ''"Poppies on a brown background"'' by

, ''"Still life with newspapers and mandolin"'', ''"Groupers"'' by

, ''"Still Life with Oranges"'' by

, ''"Flowers on the window"'' by Lev Orekhov, ''"Still Life with Jug"'' by Sergei Osipov, ''"Still life on the Terrace"'' by

, ''"Quince and Teapot"'' by

, and some others.

Acknowledgment

Exhibition was covered in press and in literature specialized at Soviet fine art.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.405, 423.

References

Sources

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Acknowledgment

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