Retrospective Exhibition "Still life of 1950-1990s. The Leningrad School" (russian: Натюрморт в живописи 1950-1990-х годов. Ленинградская школа) became one of the most notable event in the exhibition live of 1997 year. The Exhibition took place in Saint Petersburg in the Memorial Museum of Nikolai A. Nekrasov. There were exhibited 56 art works from private collections of 25 importrant masters of this genre.

History and Organization

Exhibition was opened on April 26, and worked up to June 1, 1997. Catalog was published.

Contributing Artists

There were exhibited art works of 25 painters of the Leningrad School: Taisia Afonina, Piotr Alberti, Yuri Belov, Veniamin Borisov,

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 RSFS ...

, Alexander Koroviakov,

Piotr Litvinsky Piotr Petrovich Litvinsky (russian: Пё́тр Петро́вич Литви́нский; November 7, 1927, Leningrad, USSR, – July 8, 2009, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher, Honored Artist o ...

Vladimir Malevsky Vladimir Evgenievich Malevsky (russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Малевский; November 1, 1925, Leningrad, USSR - October 17, 1981, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist, a member of the Leningrad ...

Piotr Nazarov Piotr Fedorovich Nazarov (russian: Пё́тр Фё́дорович Наза́ров; 25 December 1921 in Kochki, Novosibirsk Oblast, Soviet Russia – 19 April 1988 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet and Russian painter and art teacher, who l ...

Anatoli Nenartovich Anatoli Nenartovich (russian: Анато́лий Ненарто́вич; 10 July 1915 – 1 January 1988) was a Soviet Russian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad and known as representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous ...

Samuil Nevelshtein Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein (russian: Самуи́л Григо́рьевич Невельште́йн; March 22, 1903, Herson, Russian Empire – November 16, 1983, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet, Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artis ...

, Sergei Osipov, Nikolai Pozdneev,

Evgeny Pozdniakov Evgeny Mikhailovich Pozdniakov (russian: Евге́ний Миха́йлович Поздняко́в; July 9, 1923, Petrograd, USSR – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Len ...

Kapitolina Rumiantseva Kapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva (russian: Капитоли́на Алексе́евна Румя́нцева; December 16, 1925 in Leningrad, USSR – August 8, 2002 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter an ...

Lev Russov Lev Alexandrovich Russov (russian: Ле́в Алекса́ндрович Ру́сов; 31 January 1926 – 20 February 1987) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad b ...

Nadezhda Shteinmiller Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller (russian: link=no, Наде́жда Па́вловна Штейнми́ллер; February 16, 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet Realism (visual arts), realist painter, ...

, Elena Skuin,

Piotr Vasiliev Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev (russian: Пё́тр Константи́нович Васи́льев; January 26, 1909 – June 9, 1989) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad ...

, Nina Veselova,

Rostislav Vovkushevsky Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky (russian: Ростисла́в Ива́нович Вовкуше́вский; March 22, 1917 – August 14, 2000) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of t ...

Contributed Artworks

For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1950-1980s. Some of them were exhibited before, some paintings were shown in the first time. In general, the exhibition presented as works of famous masters of this genre, and the direction of development of Still life painting in the works by Leningrad artists of the middle - second half of the twentieth century. Still life of second half of 1950s was represented by the works of ''"Peonies"'' (1958) by

, ''"Peonies"'' (1959) by

, ''"Still life with a bust of Seneca"'' (1958) by

, ''"Flowers and Cherry"'' (1956) by Elena Skuin, ''"Still life with a book"'' (1956) by

, ''"Glass on the Blue"'' (1958) by Nina Veselova, and some others. Still life of 1960s was represented by the works of ''"Still life with Pussy-Willows"'' (1964) by Taisia Afonina, ''"Still life with Brushes"'' (1968) by

, ''"Smoked Vobla"'' (1969) by Nikolai Pozdneev, "Still life with White Cup" (1969) by

, and some others. Still life of 1970s was represented by the works of ''"Joinery Workshop"'' (1976) by Piotr Alberti, ''"Still life on the Red Material"'' (1979) by

, ''"Autumn branch"'' (1974) by Sergei Osipov, ''"Autumn Still life"'' (1972) by Alexander Koroviakov, and some others. Still life of 1980s and beginning of 1990s was represented by the works of ''"Still Life with Watermelon"'' (1992) by Piotr Alberti, ''"Still life with yellow cloth"'' (1981) by

, ''"Still life with Roses"'' (1991) by Veniamin Borisov, and some others.

Acknowledgment

Exhibition was widely covered in press and in literature specialized at Soviet fine art. In reviews noted the high level of the works and a rare opportunity to see together paintings of graduates of almost all famous workshops of the Academy of Arts.''Иванова М. Неизвестные шедевры'' // Невское время. 1997, 26 апреля.

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