Arseny Semionov
| Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov | |
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January 23, 1911 Maksimkovo, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | September 13, 1992 (aged 81) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting, Art teaching |
| Movement | Realism |
| Awards | Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War 1st and 2nd class, Medal For the Victory Over Germany |
Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov (Russian: Арсе́ний Ники́форович Семе́нов; January 23, 1911in Maksimovo, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire – September 13, 1992 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape and cityscape paintings.
Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov was born January 23, 1911 in the village of Maksimkovo, Polotsk Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire in the family of the master-builder of railway bridges. His father died when Arseny was four years old. The future artist spent his childhood in the Belarusian town of Bykhaw.
In 1927, after graduating from high school Arseny Semionov arrives in Leningrad. He works as a general worker, while engaged in painting and drawing at the private art studio of Alfred Eberling, a famous art teacher and a member of AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia). In 1930, Arseny Semionov take preparatory courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and in the same year he became a student of the Institute of Proletarian Fine Art.
Arseny Semionov years of study coincided with a radically reformed of institute and the whole system of art education. In 1932, the period ended, notorious in the history of the institute as "maslovschina". October 11, 1932 the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars accept the decree "On creation of the Academy of Arts." Institute of Proletarian Art was transformed into the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Thus was the line be drawn under 15-year period of continuous transformations of the largest art institutions in the Soviet Union. However, it took several years to ensure that assemble disparate teaching force and a new way to build an art education. This process began a new director of the Academy of Fine Arts sculptor T. A. Matveev and his Deputy for Academic Affairs Professor of Painting Akexander Savinov. They invited for the teaching job at the institute professors Dmitry Kardovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Semion Abugov, Yevgeny Lansere, Nikolai Radlov, Pavel Shillingovsky, Isaak Brodsky, and others, many have made subsequently to the formation of the Leningrad school of painting.
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