Nina Veselova
| Nina Leonidovna Veselova | |
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| Born |
January 6, 1922 Petrograd, Soviet Russia |
| Died | March 3, 1960 (aged 38) Leningrad, USSR |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting, Graphics |
| Movement | Realism |
Nina Leonidovna Veselova (Russian: Ни́на Леони́довна Весело́ва; January 6, 1922, Petrograd, Soviet Russia – March 3, 1960, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, Doctor of art-criticism (1954), who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Nina Leonidovna Veselova was born January 6, 1922, in Petrograd (former Saint Petersburg), Soviet Russia.
In 1934–1941 years Nina Veselova studied at the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Fine Arts, where she was student of Vladimir Gorb, Piotr Kazakov, Leonid Sholokhov, and Alexander Zaitsev.
In 1941 after graduating Nina Veselova entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After the beginning of German-Soviet War, Nina Veselova continued studying in the institute until its evacuation to Central Asia in February 1942.
During the World War II and the siege of Leningrad, Nina Veselova remained in Leningrad. She worked at the plant, an educator of kindergarten, in the lumber camps on the outskirts of Leningrad. In 1943-1944, after breaking through the siege of Leningrad she was engaged in reviving the Tavricheskaya Art School.
In 1944, after the liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's blockade and the return the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from evacuation, Nina Veselova resume classes at the faculty of painting. She studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev.
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