Maria Rudnitskaya

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya
Born	June 17, 1916 Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Died	January 1, 1983 Leningrad, USSR
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Graphics, Art Education
Movement	Realism

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya (Russian: Мари́я Леони́довна Рудни́цкая; June 17, 1916 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire – January 1, 1983 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was born June 17, 1916, in the city of Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire, in family of railway engineer. In the years 1916-1927 Maria with her parents lived in Siberia for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

In 1932, after graduating from seven-year school Maria Rudnitskaya comes to Leningrad. In 1935 Maria Rudnitskaya entered at the Tavricheskaya Art School, where she studied of A. Gromov, S. Bootler, V. Levitsky, V. Oreshnikov, and M. Aslamazian.

In 1939 Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from Tavricheskaya Art School. In the same year she entered at the first cours of Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she studied of Semion Abugov, Boris Fogel, Mikhail Bernshtein, and Igor Grabar.

In 1949, after a long break forced by the second world war and evacuation, Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in the studio of Victor Oreshnikov, together with Nikolai Babasuk, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov, Victor Teterin, and other young artists. Her graduation work was genre painting named "Motherhood".

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