Yaroslav Krestovsky
| Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky | |
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| Born |
February 9, 1925 Leningrad, USSR |
| Died | January 23, 2003 (aged 77) Saint Petersburg |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Realism |
Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky (Russian: Яросла́в И́горевич Кресто́вский, February 9, 1925, Leningrad, USSR – 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Yaroslav Igorevich Krestovsky was born February 9, 1925, in Leningrad, USSR in family of wellknown Leningrad sculptor Igor Krestovsky (1894—1976; see also: Портрет скульптора Игоря Крестовского)[], a professor of the Ilya Repin Institute. Yaroslav Krestovsky also a grandson of the famous Russian prose-writer Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840—1895), the author of the novel "The Slums of Saint Petersburg" (1864).
From 1937 till 1941 Yaroslav was studied at СХШ. His teachers were Konstantyn Lepilov, Olga Bogaevskaya, Mikhail Natarevich. When thу War was beginning Yaroslav with his family evacuated from Leningrad to Rostov the Great. After returning he entered to the painting department of the ЛВХПУ. In the autumn of 1945 a tragic event happened with him: he lost an eye during a hunt. To save a colour sensing he had to change the painting department to the restoration one, which he graduated at 1948.
From 1948 till 1950 he worked as an artist-restorer of the wall-painting at the State restoration workshop[].
Meanwhile, he began to attend the courses at the Ilya Repin Institute as an extern and in 1950 he entered to the Graphic Department of it. After 2 years he changed the Department into the Painting and in 1956 he graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Bobyshov workshop. His Diploma work were series of sketches to the scenery and costumes of an Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov`s opera "Snegurochka"
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