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Ivan Varichev

Ivan Mikhailovich Varichev
Born January 15, 1924
Nizhnaya Loshikha, Smolensk Province, USSR
Died June 7, 2016
Nationality Russian
Education Repin Institute of Arts
Known for Painting
Movement Realism
Awards Order of the Patriotic War
Order of Glory
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the Russian Federation

Ivan Mikhailovich Varichev (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Ва́ричев; January 15, 1924, Nizhnaya Loshikha, Smolensk Province of the USSR - June 7, 2016) - Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, who live and work in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He is a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscape of rural Russia.

Ivan Mikhailovich Varichev was born January 15, 1924 in village of Nizhnaya Loshikha, Smolensk Province of the USSR.

In 1942, Ivan Varichev was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the German-Soviet War, which led the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies. As a soldier and gunner he fought on the Leningrad Front, then on the Soviet Far East against Japan. He was wounded and marked by military awards.

After demobilization Ivan Varichev entered at the Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad, which he graduated in 1951. After graduation Ivan Varichev was adopted at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of Ivan Stepashkin, Vitaly Valtsev, Piotr Belousov.

In 1957, Ivan Varichev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Yuri Neprintsev studio, together with Galina Rumiantseva, Zlata Bizova, Ilya Glazunov, Elena Gorokhova, Vladimir Malevsky, Dmitry Oboznenko, Vladimir Proshkin, and other young artists. His graduation work was genre painting "The Return from mowing"


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