Yuri Neprintsev

Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev
Born	August 15, 1909 Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died	October 20, 1996 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, graphics, Art teaching
Movement	Realism
Awards	Order of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Lenin

Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Непри́нцев; August 15, 1909, Tbilisi, Georgia – October 20, 1996, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet, later Russian, painter, graphic artist, art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, People's Artist of USSR, and a member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and battle paintings.

Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev was born August 15, 1909, in Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire. He came from the nobility. His father, Neprintsev Mikhail Nikolaevich was an architect, a Honored Art Worker of Science and Technology of the Georgian SSR (1946).

In 1926 Yuri Neprintsev comes to Leningrad to continue his education. In years of 1926-1930, he studied of prof. Vasily Savinsky private art studio. Since 1929, Yuri Neprintsev begins to work the designer and graphic artist in the palace-museums of Leningrad and the Pushkin town. In 1932–1934 years he worked as illustrator for magazines and publishing houses of Leningrad.

In 1934, Yuri Neprintsev entered at the third course of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied of Pavel Naumov, Alexander Lubimov, and Isaak Brodsky, who 30 years ago was also a student of Vasily Savinsky.

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