Igor Veselkin
| Igor Petrovich Veselkin | |
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| Born | March 8, 1915 Ranenburg, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1997 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting, Scenography |
| Movement | Realism |
Igor Petrovich Veselkin (Russian: И́горь Петро́вич Весё́лкин; March 8, 1915 – 1997) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, scenographer, stage designer, and art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Veselkin Igor Petrovich was born March 8, 1915, in the town of Ranenburg, Ryazan Governorate.
In 1930 Igor Veselkin entered the Ryazan Art College, from which he graduated in 1934. In 1936 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied under noted educators Alexander Debler, Boris Fogel, Alexander Segal, and Mikhail Platunov.
In 1947 Veselkin graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Mikhail Bobishov workshop. His graduated work was design of the play "The Kremlin chimes" (by the same name play of Nikolai Pogodin), award-winning Art Fund of the USSR.
After graduating in the 1947–1951 years, Igor Veselkin had continued his postgraduate studies in the Repin Institute of Arts. In 1951 he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of art-criticism.
Beginning in 1947, Igor Veselkin worked as a theatre decorator in Leningrad and Moscow theaters for the following plays: "We are on the ground", (Olga Bergholz and George Makogonenko, Leningrad BDT Theatre named after Maxim Gorky, 1948), "Ilya Golovin" (Sergey Mikhalkov, Moscow Art Theatre named after Maxim Gorky, 1949), "Philistines" (Maxim Gorky, Moscow Art Theatre, 1950), "Summerfolk" (Maxim Gorky, Moscow Art Theatre, 1951), "Native Fields" (Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Sergei Kirov, 1953).
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