Vladimir Sakson

Vladimir Stanislavovich Sakson
Born	May 17, 1927 Leningrad, USSR
Died	March 13, 1988 Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Illustration, Scenography, Decoration
Movement	Realism

Vladimir Stanislavovich Sakson (Russian: Влади́мир Станисла́вович Са́ксон; May 17, 1927, Leningrad, USSR — March 13, 1988, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, Book illustrator, Scenographer, Stage designer, Art decorator, living and working in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Vladimir Stanislavovich Sakson was born May 17, 1927 in Leningrad, USSR. In 1939-1940, V. Sakson participated in a competition of children’s drawings held in the memory of Pushkin in which his works stood out and his artistic talents were recognized. He was admitted along with other gifted young artists to the art studio at the Pioneer Union under the direction of Professor M.A. Gorohova. Later, he was accepted into the Artist School at the Academy of Art. There he studied under the patronage of such great artists as Andrei Mylnikov and Olga Bogaevskaya. The Second World War dramatically interrupted V. Sakson’s studies and forced his maturation. It was under siege that he first learned that he had been born under a lucky star – a friend of his whom he had been holding was killed in his arms during the raid by a stray bullet. The second time V. Sakson learned of his lucky star was during the evacuation of Leningrad. He and his mother missed the car that was to have taken them out of the city. The car that they could not reach sunk under ice during its escape. V. Sakson and his mother managed to escape from the besieged city and were sent to Samarkand. After the war, the refugees returned to Leningrad and V. Sakson returned to art school to continue his studies. In 1949 V. Sakson entered the Ilya Repin Institute. During his studies he became involved with a traveling theater group, creating sets for their performances of Trembita and Free Wind. For his diploma project he created a set for the N. Rimsky-Korsakov play Sadko. In 1954 Sakson graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Bobyshov workshop, where he also studied of Alexander Debler, Yuri Neprintsev, Mikhail Platunov, Alexander Segal.

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