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Sergei Ivanovich Osipov

Sergei Ivanovich Osipov
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Born September 22, 1915
Stepankovo, Bezhetsk county, Tver Province, Russian Empire
Died October 12, 1985
Leningrad, USSR
Nationality Russian
Education Repin Institute of Arts
Known for Painting, Art teaching
Movement Realism

Sergei Ivanovich Osipov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович О́сипов; September 22, 1915, Stepankovo, Bezhetsk county, Tver Province, Russian Empire – 1985, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad, and also was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. He had been regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape and still life paintings.

Sergei Ivanovich Osipov was born September 22, 1915 in the village of Stepankovo, Bezhetsk county, Tver Province, Russian Empire. His father worked on construction in Petrograd.

Osipov started his education in primary school of the village of Porechie. In 1927 he coming to his father in Leningrad. Here he graduated seven classes of secondary school № 57 and enters a pupil at the plant. Then he works with his father in construction. At the same time Osipov attending evening classes of Tavricheskaya Art School, where he studied with famous teachers Vladimir Sukov and Semion Abugov.

In 1932, Sergei Osipov enters the preparatory classes at the Russian Academy of Arts, and in 1936 he became a student of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied of Semion Abugov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky.

The Great Patriotic War caught Sergei Osipov on graduate course of Alexander Osmerkin workshop. He volunteered to go to the Red Army and participated in battles at Leningrad. In December 1941, under the demining of passes for the upcoming battalion sailors from Kronshtadt to the Old Peterhoff he was seriously injured, lost a leg. More than a year he spent in the hospital for treatment. He discharged in 1943 as a disabled of Great Patriotic War. He was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, medals "Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"" and "For Victory over Germany".


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