1953 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The year 1953 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events[]

• The Spring exhibition of works by leningrad artists of 1953 opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were , Vsevolod Bazhenov, Leonid Baykov, , , , , , Ekaterina Efimova, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, , , Pen Varlen, , , , , Ivan Savenko, , Elena Skuin, , Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Tkachev, Boris Fogel, Rudolf Frentz, and other important Leningrad artists.^[1]
• An artist Victor Oreshnikov is appointed the rector of the Repin Institute of Arts. Headed an institute up to 1979 year.^[2]
• October 17 — Second All-Union Exhibition of graduates of the Art Institute of 1953 opened in Moscow. Featured the works of , Nikolai Galakhov, , Valeria Larina, Nikolai Lomakin, , Vladimir Seleznev, and others.^[3]
• Exhibition of works by famous Russian artist and teacher Dmitry Kardovsky (1866–1943) opened in Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.^[4]

Deaths[]

• May 31 — Vladimir Tatlin (Russian: Татлин Владимир Евграфович), Russian soviet artists (born 1885).
• June 25 — Alexander Osmerkin (Russian: Осмёркин Александр Александрович), Russian soviet painter (born 1892).
• July 4 — (Russian: Котов Пётр Иванович), Russian soviet painter, Honored art worker of Russian Federation (born 1889).
• October 6 — Vera Mukhina, (Russian: Мухина Вера Игнатьевна), Russian soviet sculptor, People's Artist of the USSR, Stalin Prize winner, author of monument Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (born 1889).

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  Vladimir Tatlin

Gallery of 1953[]

See also[]

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture
• 1953 in the Soviet Union

References[]

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