Elena Kostenko

Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko
Born(1926-08-09)9 August 1926
Leningrad, USSR
Died26 September 2019 (aged 93)
EducationRepin Institute of Arts
Known forPainting
MovementRealism

Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (Russian: Еле́на Миха́йловна Косте́нко; 9 August 1926 – 26 September 2019) was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[1] regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[2] most famous for her portrait paintings.

  1. ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p.547.
  2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 15, 362, 389-402, 404-407, 445.