Leningrad Secondary Art School (russian: Ленингра́дская Сре́дняя худо́жественная шко́ла) was established in 1934 as the first art school for gifted children. Petersburgacademy

History

The Leningrad Secondary Art School was found in 1934 by initiative of Leningrad communist party boss

Sergei Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov (né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and membe ...

as the first in the

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art school for gifted children. Located in the Academy of Arts building 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 1936 it was transformed in the Secondary Art School. In 1947 the Secondary Art School became a division of the USSR Academy of Arts which in 1973 was named after the noted artist

Boris Ioganson Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson (russian: Борис Владимирович Иогансон, – 25 February 1973) also commonly known as B. V. Johanson, was a Russian and Soviet painter and educator. Biography Ioganson was born on in Mosco ...

. Since 1992 it has been the B. Ioganson St. Petersburg State Academy Art Lyceum comprising three divisions: painting, sculpture and architecture. Among its first teachers were mostly professors and teachers of the Academy of Arts: Konstantin Lepilov, Leonid Ovsyannikov, Leonid Sholokhov,

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 prof ...

, Samuil Nevelshtein, Alexander Debler, Alexander Zaytsev, and many others. The School boasts its such alumni of international reputation as

Mikhail Anikushin Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (russian: Михаил Константинович Аникушин; (19 September 1917, Moscow – 18 May 1997, Saint Petersburg) was a famous Soviet and Russian sculptor. Among his most famous works are a m ...

Alexei Eriomin Alexei Grigorievich Eriomin (russian: Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Ерё́мин; March 17, 1919 – June 11, 1998) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, who lived and worked in Saint P ...

Oleg Lomakin Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin (russian: Оле́г Леони́дович Лома́кин; August 29, 1924, Krasny Kholm, Tver Province, USSR – March 25, 2010, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, Honored ...

Maya Kopitseva Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (russian: Ма́йя Кузьми́нична Копы́тцева; May 18, 1924, in Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR – June 6, 2005, in Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet Russian still-life painter and an Honored Artist of the RS ...

Nikolai Pozdneev Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev (russian: Никола́й Матве́евич Поздне́ев; 28 September 1930 – 10 June 1978) was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, repr ...

Yuri Tulin Yuri Nilovich Tulin (russian: Ю́рий Ни́лович Ту́лин; August 14, 1921 in Maksatikha village, Tver Province, Soviet Russia – April 27, 1988 in Leningrad, USSR) -was a Soviet Russian painter and Honored Artist of the Russian F ...

Mikhail Kaneev Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev (russian: Кане́ев Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович; April 5, 1923 in Kostroma Province, USSR – March 6, 1983 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in L ...

Valentina Monakhova Valentina Vasilievna Monakhova (russian: Валенти́на Васи́льевна Мона́хова; born August 23, 1932, in Leningrad, USSR) is a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, living and working in ...

Vladimir Chekalov Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov (russian: Влади́мир Фё́дорович Чека́лов; July 6, 1922 – June 4, 1992) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the ...

Georgy Kovenchuk Gaga (Georgy Vasilyevich) Kovenchuk ( rus, Гага (Георгий Васильевич) Ковенчук; 2 December 1933 — 3 February 2015). Soviet and Russian artist and writer. Gaga was an artist, painter, graphic artist, book artist and p ...

Marina Kozlovskaya Marina Andreevna Kozlovskaya (russian: Мари́на Андре́евна Козло́вская; 7 April 1925 – 2019) was a Soviet and Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the leading rep ...

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 Arti ...

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-criticis ...

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 ...

, Anatoli Levitin,

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, w ...

, and other.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p. 15. The most gifted children with the four-year experience in the primary school are selected to become students of the Lyceum for the free of charge eight-year training. The Diploma of the secondary art education allows its graduates to enroll the higher art educational entities, including I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Since 1997, the Lyceum has arranged annual international children's art competitions named after I. Repin and exhibitions of its most talented students’ works of art. The teachers’ staff consists mostly of the graduates of the I. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture thus continuing the traditions of the Russian art school.

Alumni

* Mikhail Konstantinovich Anikushin (1917 - 1997) * Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (1917 - 2009) * Yuri Vladimirovich Belov (b. 1929) * Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov (1922 - 1992) * Abram Borisovich Grushko (1918 - 1980) * Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev (1930 - 1978) * Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev (1923 - 1983) * Georgy Vasilyevich Kovenchuk (1933-2015) * Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (b. 1926) * Marina Andreevna Kozlovskaya (b. 1925) * Tatiana Vladimirovna Kopnina (1921 - 2009) * Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (1924 - 2005) * Valentina Vasilievna Monakhova (b. 1932) * Alexander Sergeevich Stolbov (b. 1929) * Vladimir Stanislavovich Sakson (1927 - 1988) * Yuri Nilovich Tulin (1921 - 1986) * Alexander Tikhonovich Pushnin (1921 - 1991) * Nina Veselova (1922 - 1960) * Vecheslav Zagonek (1919 - 1994)

References

Bibliography

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