Krantz, Vladimir Pavlovich
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 landscape is the genre of painting that evokes reciprocal feeling in every Russian, especially if it is done in such brilliant manner as that of Vladimir Krantz. The life itself made him an artist. He was lucky not to be forced painting in an official formal manner, glorifying the socialist labor. The artist simply polished…
Leningrad School of Painting
On our websites you will find many paintings you may recognize as works of art inspired by The Leningrad School of Painting (Russian: Ленинградская школа живописи). This refers to a group of Soviet painters, who from 1930 to 1950 founded in Leningrad the Reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet artists. The history of the Leningrad School covers the period from early 1930 to early 1990s. It’s appearance was the result of the conflict resolution and reflect predominant trends in the development of Soviet art and artisanship at the turn of the 1920-1930s. It was accelerated in April 1932 by political offices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party…
