Alexander Koroviakov
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, Russian Empire – June 12, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Soviet, Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg
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, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...

 (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
Leningrad School of Painting
The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

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Biography

Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov was born November 16, 1912 in Berdskaya, near Orenburg
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, Orenburg Province
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, Russian Empire
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In 1947 Alexander Koroviakov graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Viktor Oreshnikov workshop. He studed of Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Semion Abugov.

Since 1949 Alexander Koroviakov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings. Most famous for his still life paintings and cityscapes of Leningrad.

In 1954–1983 years Alexander Koroviakov worked as Art teacher and Director of the Leningrad Secondary Art School
Leningrad Secondary Art School
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 under the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

Alexander Koroviakov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1955.

Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov died on June 12, 1993 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-first year of life. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, in the U.S., China, France, and throughout the world.

See also

  • Leningrad School of Painting
    Leningrad School of Painting
    The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

  • List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
  • List of the Russian Landscape painters
  • Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
    Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
    Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...


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