1959 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

The year 1959 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events[]

• Solo Exhibition of works by Yaroslav Nikolaev was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
• The traveling exhibition of works by Yuri Neprintsev shown in Leningrad, Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Gorky, Saratov.
• In Kaliningrad on the Kalinin square at the railway station is opened a bronze monument to Mikhail Kalinin, sculptor Boris Edunov.
• Solo Exhibition of works by Piotr Belousov was opened in the City painting gallery in the Vologda.^[1]
• The traveling exhibition of works by Leningrad artists opened in Murmansk. The participants included Irina Baldina, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Nikolai Galakhov, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Maya Kopitseva, Alexander Koroviakov, Gavriil Malish, Evsey Moiseenko, Boris Shamanov, Elena Skuin, Victor Teterin, Yuri Tulin and Vecheslav Zagonek.^[2]

Deaths[]

• May 26 — (Russian: Кучумов Василий Никитич), Russian soviet painter and graphic artists (born 1888).
• November 3 — (Russian: Богородский Фёдор Семёнович), Russian soviet painter and graphic artists, Honored art worker of Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner (born 1895).
• December 29 — (Russian: Кокорекин Алексей Алексеевич), Russian soviet graphic artists, Honored art worker of Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner (born 1906).

Gallery of 1959[]

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See also[]

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture
• 1959 in the Soviet Union

References[]

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