Dmitry Ivanovich Maevskywas born May 17, 1917 in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg; Leningrad), Russia. From 1937-1939 Mr. Maevsky studied at the Repin Institute of Arts. He enrolled in the art workshop and studio headed by the famous Isaak Brodsky. Under Brodsky’s tutelage, he learned painting in the very best naturalistic tradition of Russian Landscape, inspired particularly…
Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov takes his place among other renowned Soviet landscape painters such as Efrem I. Zverkov, Nikolai Efimovich Timkov, Vladimir Y. Yukin, and Vladimir Fedorovich Tokarev. These masters are brought together by openness, simplicity and delicacy. The emotional intensity of their paintings is rooted in their tender allegiance to their native land. Kossenkov was…
VLADIMIR PAVLOVICH KRANTZ What forms the essence of the Russian soul? What is dear to every heart? That particular warm feeling towards the wide expanse of harvest fields and the modest birch trees in early spring? The lyrical, contemplative character, which seeks for the response in a simple unpretentious view of native nature? The lyrical…
The traditional Russian painting is one of the world’s most important schools of thought. Through generations, artists and artists’ ideas of teachers have been passed on to students. To this day, Russia produces outstanding works in technical perfection and with love for the subject. This generally acknowledged high quality of traditional Russian painting is all the…