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Autumn Exhibition (Leningrad, 1958)
The ''Autumn Exhibition'' (Leningrad, 1958) (in full the ''Autumn Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad Artists'' (Leningrad, 1958), ) was one of the largest Soviet art exhibitions of 1958 and of the whole of the early Khrushchev Thaw. The exhibition took place in the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls at Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38. History and organization The ''Autumn Exhibition'' lasted from October to November 1958. Its organization and preparation was carried out by a specially formed exhibition committee of authoritative art experts. An exhibition catalog was published. The exhibition displayed almost 1,600 works by painters, sculptors, graphic artists, theater and cinema artists, and masters of arts and crafts. It was attended by 510 Leningrad artists. Contributing artists In the Department of Painting, the exhibition's largest section, the works of 232 artists were displayed. The artists were Taisia Afonina, Irina Baldina, Leonid Baykov, Evgenia Baykova ...
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the List of European cities by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in Europe, the List of cities and towns around the Baltic Sea, most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's List of northernmost items#Cities and settlements, northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a Ports of the Baltic Sea, historically strategic port, it is governed as a Federal cities of Russia, federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the s ...
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Mikhail Kaneev
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev (; 5 April 1923 – 6 March 1983) was a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as a known representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his cityscapes of Leningrad and ancient Russian towns. Biography Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev was born on 5 April 1923 in Kaneevo village, Kostroma Province of USSR. In 1927 his family moved to Leningrad. In 1937 Mikhail Kaneev entered in the Leningrad Secondary Art School (now known as the Art School named after Boris Ioganson) at the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which ends in 1941. In the same year Mikhail Kaneev entered at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was drafted into the Red Army and returned to classes only after the Victory in 1945. He studied of Ivan Stepashkin, Leoni ...
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Ivan Lavsky
Ivan Ivanovich Lavsky (; 23 August 1919, city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Soviet Republic – 10 October 1977, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, born in Ukraine who after World War II lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.18, 24, 29, 31, 318, 363, 390, 392–399, 404, 405, 414, 416–419, 422. Biography Lavsky was born on 15 August 1919 in the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Ukraine Republic. In 1939 Lavsky graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Art School, where he studied under Mikhail Panin. In 1941–1945, Lavsky took part in the Great Patriotic War, which led the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies. As a machine gunner, he participated in the battles, was wounded and marked by military a ...
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Boris Lavrenko
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko (; 6 May 1920 – 7 June 2001) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was born on 6 May 1920 in the city of Rostov on Don, Soviet Russia. In 1936–1940 years Boris Lavrenko studied at the Rostov on Don Art School. In Autumn of 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army. Boris Lavrenko was a veteran of World War II. As an artilleryman, he went all the way from Moscow to Berlin. His front-line drawings, sketches, portraits are interesting as a documentary and truth. After demobilization in 1946, Boris Lavrenko entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. The ...
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Valeria Larina
Valeria Borisovna Larina (; April 10, 1926 – February 25, 2008) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (known as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation prior to 1992) and is regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Valeria Borisovna Larina was born April 10, 1926, in Leningrad, USSR. In 1946, Valeria Larina entered the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. There she studied under Piotr Belousov, Ivan Stepashkin, and Alexander Zaytsev. In 1953, Valeria Larina graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as a painter in Boris Ioganson's workshop. Her peers included Mark Klionsky, Leonid Kabachek, Izzat Klychev, Konstantin Molteninov, Vladimir Seleznev, Nikolai Galakhov, and ...
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Yaroslav Krestovsky
Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (, 9 February 1925 – 23 January 2003) was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, cited by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Krestovsky was born on 9 February 1925 in Leningrad in the family of sculptor Igor Krestovsky (1894—1976; see also: Портрет скульптора Игоря Крестовского), a professor of the Ilya Repin Institute. Yaroslav Krestovsky is a grandson of the famous Russian prose-writer Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840—1895), the author of the novel ''"The Slums of Saint Petersburg"'' (1864). From 1937 till 1941 Yaroslav studied at the Leningrad Secondary Art School of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. His teachers were Konstantyn Lepilov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Mikhail Natarevich. With the beginning of 2WW, Yaroslav’s family was evacuated from Leningrad to Rostov the Great. After returning to Lening ...
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Gevork Kotiantz
Gevork Vartanovich Kotiantz (; ; 12 November 1909 – 28 August 1996) was a Soviet Armenian painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography He was born on 12 November 1909 in Shusha, Elizavetpol Governorate in the family of craftsman jeweler. In the same year his family moved to the North Caucasus in Pyatigorsk. In 1927-1929 Kotiantz engaged in a private Art studio in Pyatigorsk, independently studied paintings of outstanding artists of the past through books and reproductions, and a lot painted from the life. In 1929, he became a member of the Pyatigorsk branch of the AKhR — Association of Artists of the Revolution (, Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsii or AKhR, 1928-1932). In 1930 for the first time Kotiantz participated in Art exhibition in Pyatigorsk, then in the cities of the North Caucasus Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Mineral Waters. In 1931-1932, Kotiantz worked as an artist at the Museu ...
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Anna Kostrova
Anna Alexandrovna Kostrova (; November 22, 1909 – July 7, 1994) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and book illustrator, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 387-389, 400, 443, 444. Biography Anna Alexandrovna Kostrova was born November 22, 1909, in the village Belostok, Omsk Province, West Siberia. In 1925 Anna Kostrova entered at the Omsk School of Industrial Art, where she studied of V. Trofimov and S. Feldman. In 1928 Anna Kostrova graduated from the School of Industrial Art in Omsk. In 1930 Anna Kostrova comes to Leningrad. Since 1934 she has participated in Art Exhibitions. Anna Kostrova painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, worked as easel painter, graphic artist, and art illustrator. Her personal exhibitio ...
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Nikolai Kostrov
Nikolai Ivanovich Kostrov (; May 19, 1901 – April 11, 1995) was a Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting and graphics. Biography Nikolai Ivanovich Kostrov was born May 19, 1901, in the village Vasilievskoye, Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1922, Nikolai Kostrov entered at the Leningrad VKHUTEIN (The Leningrad Higher Institute of Industrial Art, before 1918 known as the High Art School under Imperial Academy of Arts), where he studied under Alexander Savinov, Alexander Karev, and Michail Matjuschin. In 1926 Nikolai Kostrov graduated from the VKHUTEIN together with Yuri Vasnetsov, Sofia Zaklikovskaya, Pavel Kondratiev, Vasily Kuptsov, Valentin Kurdov, Kirill Kustodiev, Evgenia Magaril, Gerta Nemenova, Alexei Pochteny, George Traugot, Evgeny Charushin, and other young artists.''Anniv ...
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Elena Kostenko
Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (; 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 Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings. Biography Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was born on 9 August 1926 in Leningrad. Her father, Mikhail Kostenko, was an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, one of the major organizers of Soviet science. In 1938, Elena Kostenko entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which is trained with a break until 1946. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb. Together with Elena Kostenko in Leningrad Secondary Art School studied many well known in the future Russian artists and sculp ...
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Alexander Koroviakov
Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov (; 16 November 1912 – 12 June 1993) was a Soviet, Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting. Biography Koroviakov was born on 16 November 1912 in Berdskaya, near Orenburg, Orenburg Province, Russian Empire. In 1932 Alexander Koroviakov entered to the Fine Art College (Penza). After graduating he comes to Leningrad and continued his study at Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin since 1937. He studied with Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Semion Abugov. In 1941, July, Alexander Koroviakov has gone to the Red Army as a volunteer from the last academic year. Не took part in Volhovsky Front, in the battles for Leningrad, in the liberation of Baltic states. Н� ...
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Boris Korneev (painter)
Boris Vasilievich Korneev (; 15 February 1922 – 24 December 1973) was a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre painting and portraits. Biography Boris Vasilievich Korneev was born on 15 February 1922 in Petrozavodsk, Karelia Province, Soviet Russia. In 1938, Boris Korneev entered the Leningrad Art Colledge and graduated only after the war. During the war he was in the army at 749 infantry and participated in the breakthrough of the Blockade of Leningrad at the liberation of Baltic countries, Karelia, Poland, Czechoslovakia. He was awarded by Order of Glory third class, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in ...
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