Spring Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1955) () become one of the important Soviet Art Exhibition of 1955 and middle of 1950s at whole. The Exhibition took place in Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls on Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38.

History and Organization

Exhibition was opened on 7, July. The Department of Art and Crafts has been opened on 10, June. Organization and preparation of Exhibition was engaged specially formed Exhibition Committee which consisted of 23 the most authoritative art-experts headed by Yaroslav Nikolaev. It was published Catalog of the exhibition. In total, was exhibited almost 630 works of art from 192 painters, sculptors, graphic artists, masters of art and crafts.

Contributing Artists

In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited art works of 91 authors. There were

Evgenia Antipova Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (; 19 October 1917 – 27 January 2009) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was known for her genre compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings, which she created using oils ...

, Irina Baldina, Leonid Baykov, Dmitry Buchkin, Vladimir Gorb,

Alexei Eriomin Alexei Grigorievich Eriomin (; 17 March 1919 – 11 June 1998) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the Saint Peters ...

Maya Kopitseva Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (; 18 May 1924 – 6 June 2005) was a Soviet Russian still-life painter and an Honored Artist of the RSFSR who lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg. She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artis ...

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 Nove ...

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, wh ...

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 Leningra ...

Dmitry Maevsky Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky (; 17 May 1917, in Petrograd, Russian Empire – 23 July 1992, in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the ...

, Gavriil Malish, Nikolai Mukho, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov, Filaret Pakun,

Genrikh Pavlovsky Genrikh Vasilievich Pavlovsky () (October 15, 1907 – December 17, 1973) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who played an important role in the fo ...

, Varlen Pen,

Lev Russov Lev Alexandrovich Russov (; 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 branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, Leningrad ...

, Ivan Savenko, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Alexander Shmidt, Elena Skuin, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Yuri Tulin, Boris Ugarov, Piotr Vasiliev, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian, Elena Zhukova, and others most prominent painters of the Leningrad School. In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 13 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 37 artists. There were

, Anatoli Kaplan, Anna Kostrova, Alexei Pakhomov, Varlen Pen, Alexander Vedernikov, Georgy Vereysky, Vasily Zvontsov, and others.

Contributed Artworks

For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1954–1955 years. They were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors. Genre painting was presented of ''"Tugboat at the bunker"'' by Leonid Baykov, ''"In

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"'' by

, ''"Pier on the Volga"'' by Piotr Fomin, ''"

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in the August"'', ''"In the Old

"'', ''"Rainy day in

"'', ''"Korean artists"'' by Varlen Pen, ''"At the Sea"'' by

, ''" Herzen street"'', ''"Stalin Avenue"'', ''"

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embankment"'', ''"

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"'' by Arseny Semionov, ''"On plein air"'' by Elena Skuin, ''" A First Line of the Vasilievsky Island"'', ''"May Day on Vasilievsky Island"'', ''" Teatralnaya Square"'' by Leonid Tkachenko, ''"Rally at the monument to the victims of Bloody Sunday"'' by Yuri Tulin, ''"In the Collective Farm. 1929 Year"'', ''"Street"'', ''"In the yard"'' by Boris Ugarov, ''"Nevsky Prospekt in winter"'' by Vasily Vikulov, and some others. Portrait was presented of ''"Natasha"'' by Irina Baldina, ''"Portrait of chemist Monastyrsky"'' by Solomon Epshtein, ''"Old Man in White dress"'', ''"Korean Old Man in winter dress"'', ''"A Head of Korean girl"'', ''"Grandfather of

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"'', ''"Interpreter - Chinese girl"'' by Varlen Pen, ''"Portrait of artist Kremer"'' by

, ''"Portrait of Lena"'' by Yuri Tulin, ''"Portrait of artist Veniamin Kremer"'' by

, ''"Self-Portrait"'' by Gleb Verner, and some others. Landscape, Seascape and Cityscape were presented of ''"

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in the morning"'', ''"A Sea in

"'', ''"A Sea"'' by

, ''"The road to the Oyash River"'', ''"

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"'', ''"Cottages"'' by Irina Baldina, ''"October in Zaonejie"'', ''"In Podporozhye"'' by Leonid Baykov, ''"Spring"'', ''"Etude"'' by Dmitry Buchkin, ''" On Ural"'', ''"Northern village"'', ''"In Siberian taiga"'', ''"Near the Moscow"'', ''" Kizhi"'', ''"Northern etude"'', ''"On the

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"'' by

, ''"Warm day in Pargolovo"'', ''"Becoming Clear"'' by

, ''"Thawed patches"'' by

, ''"Grain harvested"'' by Gavriil Malish, ''"Etude"'' by Nikolai Mukho, ''"Courtyard in winter"'', ''"Courtyard in the Tula"'' by Lev Orekhov, ''"Spring"'', ''"Young pine-trees"'', ''"Spring flood"'', ''"Spring evening"'', ''"The Collective farm mill"'' by Sergei Osipov, ''"Before the rain"'', ''"Cold day"'', ''"The Lake"'' by Filaret Pakun, ''"Nonfreezing river"'' by

, ''"In Winter"'' by Ivan Savenko, ''" Altai. Shebalino area"'', ''"Altai. On the bank of the

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"'' by Alexander Semionov, ''"Spring landscape"'', ''"Landscape with bridge"'', ''"Early spring"'' by Arseny Semionov, ''"Gray day on

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"'' by Alexander Shmidt, ''"Spring landscape"'', ''"Silent fall on the Don River"'', ''"Last snow"'', ''"Toward spring"'' by Nikolai Timkov, ''"Sunset rays"'' by Leonid Tkachenko, ''"A Boat"'' by Yuri Tulin, ''"April"'', ''"Creek"'', ''"Small bridge"'', ''"Last snow"'' by Boris Ugarov, ''" Komarovo settlement"'' by Piotr Vasiliev, ''"Tuchkov embankment"'', ''"Yacht-club"'' by Alexander Vedernikov, ''"Teskey Ala-Too"'', ''"Mountain River"'', ''"October"'', ''"Fishermen of

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"'' by Vecheslav Zagonek, ''"

"'' by Ruben Zakharian, ''"

"'' by Elena Zhukova, and some others. Still life paintings were presented of ''"Roses"'', ''"Yellow marigolds"'' by Vladimir Gorb, ''"Flowers on the window"'' by

, ''"Still life"'' by

, "Still life" by Elena Skuin, and some others.

Acknowledgment

The Spring Exhibition of the Leningrad artists of 1955 was widely covered in press and in literature on Soviet fine art.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.390, 414, 441.

References

Sources

* ''Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог''. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956. * ''Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Т.5. 1954—1958 годы''. М., Советский художник, 1981. C.142-143. * ''Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. * ''Художники народов СССР. Биографический словарь. Т.1-4''. М., Искусство, 1970-1995. * ''Справочник членов Союза художников СССР. Т.1,2.'' М., Советский художник, 1979. * ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.390, 414, 441. , * ''Юбилейный Справочник выпускников Санкт-Петербургского академического института живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры имени И.Е.Репина Российской Академии художеств. 1915—2005''. СПб., Первоцвет, 2007.

External links

''List of Artists - Exhibitors (Spring Fine Art Exhibition, Leningrad, 1955)''
{{Years in the history of fine art of the USSR Art exhibitions in Russia 1955 in the Soviet Union Socialist realism 1955 in Russia