Alexei Eriomin
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Karelia
Karelia , the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden...

, Soviet Russia
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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 - June 11, 1998, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) - Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation
People's Artist of the Russian Federation
People's Artist of the Russian Federation .The honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation" is given not earlier than five years after the honorary title "Honored Artist of Russia" or "Honored Art Worker of Russia" the important artist who created extraordinary works of painting,...

, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was 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 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of the 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 :...

, most famous for his paintings devoted to peoples and nature of Northern Karelia.

Biography

Alexei Grigorievich Eriomin was born March 17, 1919 in the village of Velikaya Guba, located at the shore of Onega Lake in Northern Karelia.
In 1930 Alexei Eriomin comes to Leningrad. In 1935-1939 he studied in the Leningrad Secondary Art School under All-Russian Academy of Arts.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. As a tankman Alexei Eriomin took part in the German-Soviet War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies. He was wounded and marked by military awards.

After demobilization in 1945 Alexei Eriomin entered at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of Boris Fogel, Semion Abugov, Alexander Debler, and Alexander Zaytsev.

In 1951 Alexei Eriomin graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Boris Ioganson
Boris Ioganson
Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson was a Russian painter.Ioganson was born in Moscow. His father's Swedish ancestors russified the surname "Johanson"" into "Ioganson." Ioganson attended the Moscow School of Art and studied under Kasatkin and Malyutin. He was a member of the Society of Young Artists,...

 studio, together with Nikolai Baskakov
Nikolai Baskakov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov - Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.- Biography :Nikolai...

, Mikhail Kaneev
Mikhail Kaneev
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kaneev – Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his cityscapes of Leningrad and ancient Russian...

, Maya Kopitseva
Maya Kopitseva
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva - Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life...

, Anatoli Levitin, Avenir Parkhomenko, Arseny Semionov
Arseny Semionov
Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov - Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape and cityscape paintings.- Biography :Arseny...

, Mikhail Trufanov
Mikhail Trufanov
Mikhail Pavlovich Trufanov - Soviet, Russian painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings.....

, Boris Ugarov, and other young artists. His graduation work was genre painting "Lenin on the hunting in Siberian exile"

Since 1939 Alexei Eriomin has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, sketches from the life. Alexei Eriomin was most famous for his paintings devoted to peoples and nature of Northern Karelija.

Since 1951 Alexei Eriomin was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. Alexai Eriomin was awarded the honorary titles of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1970), and the People's Artist of the Russian Federation
People's Artist of the Russian Federation
People's Artist of the Russian Federation .The honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation" is given not earlier than five years after the honorary title "Honored Artist of Russia" or "Honored Art Worker of Russia" the important artist who created extraordinary works of painting,...

 (1978).

Alexei Grigorievich Eriomin died on June 11, 1998 in Saint Petersburg at the eightieth year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Japan, England, Finland, and throughout the world.

Honours and awards

  • Order of the Red Star
    Order of the Red Star
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  • Order of the Red Banner
    Order of the Red Banner
    The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...

  • Medal For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
  • Order of the Patriotic War
    Order of the Patriotic War
    The Order of the Patriotic War is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisans for heroic deeds during the German-Soviet War, known by the former-Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War.- History :The Order was...

    , 2nd class

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 Russian artists
  • 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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