Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (painter)

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov
BornFebruary 19, 1932
Leningrad, USSR
DiedMarch 16, 1993
Saint Petersburg, Russia
EducationRepin Institute of Arts
Known forPainting
MovementRealism

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov (Russian: Вячеслав Владимирович Овчинников; February 19, 1932 in Leningrad, USSR – March 16, 1993 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists),[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting,[2] most famous for his landscape painting.[3]

  1. ^ Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.95.
  2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.396.
  3. ^ L' École de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. Paris, Drouot Richelieu, 16 Juin 1989. P.74-75.