Alexander Shmidt

Alexander Vladimirovich Shmidt
Born	August 15, 1911 Rechytsa, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	May 5, 1987 Leningrad, USSR
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Graphics, Art teaching
Movement	Realism

Alexander Vladimirovich Shmidt (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Шми́дт; August 15, 1911, Rechytsa, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire – May 5, 1987, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian-Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and Art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Alexander Vladimirovich Shmidt was born August 15, 1911, in the town of Rechytsa, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Gomel region, Belarus).

In the 1928, Alexander Shmidt entered at the first course of the painting department of the Leningrad's Vkhutemas (since 1932 known as Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). There he studied under Alexander Savinov, Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1933, Alexander Shmidt graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of easel painting.

Since 1941 Alexander Shmidt has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted cityscapes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre paintings. His solo art works exhibitions were in Leningrad in years of 1962, 1973, 1983, and 1989.

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