Piotr Alberti
| Piotr Filipovich Alberti | |
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| Born | November 25, 1913 Astrakhan, Russian Empire |
| Died | October 7, 1994 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts. |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Realism |
| Awards |
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" Medal "For the Victory Over Germany" Medal "For Courage" |
Piotr Filipovich Alberti (Russian: Пéтр Фили́ппович Альбе́рти; November 25, 1913, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – October 7, 1994, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Piotr Filipovich Alberti was born November 25, 1913 in Astrakhan city, Russian Empire, on the Volga River. In 1927 he enrolled in Astrakhan Art School, where he studied with renowned artist and art educator Pavel Vlasov, students who were Boris Kustodiev and Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov. In 1932 Alberti graduated from Astrakhan Art School and left to Leningrad where he entered the preparatory course at the Russian Academy for Fine Arts.
In 1935 Alberti was admitted to the Painting Department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied until 1936, then left the studies and joined the LenIZO Association of Artists. In 1938 he married the artist Valentina Belova (d. 1955).
In 1941, Alberti volunteered for the Red Army. From October 30, 1941 to May 9, 1945, as a private soldier in Reserve Infantry Regiment 267 of the Leningrad Front, he participated in Battles at Leningrad, in the liberation of the Baltic republics. In 1944, he was seriously injured, was treated in the Leningrad military evacuation hospital № 991. He was awarded the medals "For Courage", "For Defense of Leningrad", and "For Victory over Germany".
In 1945, after demobilization, Alberti returned to work in LenIZO. For the first time he took part in Art exhibition in 1938. Since 1951 Alberti was a permanent exhibitor of the Leningrad Art exhibitions, where he showed his work among with works by the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad. He painted portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes. Among his works of 1950 - early 1960s were "Chess Players" (1951), "Flowers" (1956), "The Anichkov Bridge", "Asphalt laying workers", "A Young woman in a Boat" (all 1959), "Still Life with Palette", "A Portrait of a Man", "A Portrait of wife" (all 1960).
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