Vladimir Ovchinnikov (painter)

Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov
Born	July 14, 1911 Saratov, Russian Empire
Died	June 22, 1978 Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Education	Saratov Art School
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Овчи́нников Влади́мир Ива́нович; July 14, 1911, Saratov, Russian Empire – June 22, 1978, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded by art historian Sergei Ivanov as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape paintings.

Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov was born July 14, 1911 in the village Esipovka near city of Saratov at the Volga River in a peasant family. The village was located on the eighth mile of tract named Astrakhan, who went from Saratov in the south. In 1917 it had 60 peasant households. His mother died in 1916. During the war his father worked in a slaughterhouse and his sons - Konstantin, Vladimir, and Gregory remained in the care of grandmothers and aunts.

In 1927 Ovchinnikov joined the Saratov Art College where he studied with renowned artist and educator Piotr Utkin. After the first course with his friend he made a big trip down the Volga River from Saratov to its source. Most of the way they walked. The first stop they made in Ulyanovsk, walked on Zhiguli Hills. Were in Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Plessis, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Tver, reached Seliger lake. This perception of nature, this interest to the ordinary life of the country played a large role in his growing up and in its formation as a person. In 1929, when he was not yet 18, he first participated in the regional art exhibition.

In 1931, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, graduated from Saratov Art College and moved to Leningrad, where he entered the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (since 1932 known as Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; Since 1944 named after Ilya Repin), however, after finishing the first course, leaves the institution for family reasons. In early 1932 in the family of Vladimir and his wife Vera was born son, Vecheslav, who later became an artist, as a father. In 1937 was born the youngest son Leo.

In 1932-1941 Ovchinnikov runs a designer in various institutions of Leningrad. Simultaneously he engaged in painting and drawing in Vasily Savinsky Art Studio, then at the Leningrad Institute of Improvement qualification of Art workers by Pavel Naumov, Alexander Karev, Rudolf Frentz.

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