Elena Petrovna Skuin | |
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Born |
Ekaterinodar, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire |
April 2, 1908
Died | February 12, 1986 Leningrad, USSR |
(aged 77)
Nationality | Latvian |
Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
Known for | Painting, Art teaching |
Movement | Realism |
Elena Petrovna Skuin (Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Скуи́нь, April 2, 1908, Ekaterinodar, Russian Empire – 1986, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian – Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life painting.
Elena Petrovna Skuin was born April 2, 1908 in Ekaterinodar, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire, in the teacher's family, who arrived in the Kuban from Riga. After graduation nine-years high school she studied in 1926-1930 at the Kuban Teachers College, where she gained first professional skills of the painter. After graduating from college in 1930-1931 she taught drawing in high school in Krasnodar. Ability to draw, a bright character and a desire to improve in their chosen profession identified further choice of the path.
In 1931 Elena Skuin comes to Leningrad, worked as an artist at the Stalin Metal works, then studied at the Institute for Advanced education of Art workers.
In 1936 Elena Skuin entered at the third course of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. She studied of Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Rudolf Frentz.
In 1939 Elena Skuin graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Alexander Osmerkin personal Art Studio. Her graduate work was genre painting named "Lesson of the circle, studying the Naval Science" (Museum of Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg).