Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov
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, Soviet Russia
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 - 1973, Leningrad
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, USSR) - Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
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, most famous for his genre painting.

Biography

Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov was born December 1, 1918 in Aleshki village, Voronezh Province
Voronezh Oblast
Voronezh Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It was established on June 13, 1934.-Main rivers:*Don*Voronezh*Bityug*Khopyor-Economy:...

 of Soviet Russia
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In 1950 Alexander Sokolov graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Viktor Oreshnikov workshop. He studied of Veniamin Belkin, Mikhail Bernshtein, Pavel Naumov, Andrey Milnikov.

Since 1950 Alexander Sokolov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, sketches from the life.

Alexander Sokolov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1950.

Master of Art-criticism (1954). Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1970).

Alexander Ivanovich Sokolov died on May 9, 1973 in Leningrad. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, in the U.S., and throughout the world.

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