1946 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Monument to Lenin

Artist	Sergei Merkurov
Year	1946
Location	Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, Kiev

The year 1946 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.

Events

• The Repin Institute of Arts graduated young artists Taisia Afoninf, Raisa Getman, Alexander Gulayev, Alexei Kuznetsov, Alexei Mozhaev, Andrei Mylnikov, Piotr Puko, Vasily Sokolov, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, and others.^[1]

• January 19 – All-Union Fine Art Exhibition of 1946 was opened in Tretyakov gallery in Moscow. Over 1500 works of 555 artists were exhibited. The participants were Mikhail Avilov, Konstantin Belokurov, Mikhail Bobyshov, Fiodor Bogorodsky, Alexander Bubnov, Alexander Vedernikov, Georgy Vereysky, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Sergey Gerasimov, Gavriil Gorelov, Aleksei Gritsai, Aleksandr Deyneka, Nikolai Dormidonyov, Vasily Yefanov, Krum Dzhakov, Sergei Zakharov, Maria Zubreeva, Igor Krestovsky, Alexander Laktionov, Alexander Matveyev, Alexander Osmerkin, Gerta Nemenova, Mikhail Platunov, Konstantin Rudakov, Alexander Samokhvalov, and other important soviet artists.^[2]

• May 9 – After post-war restoration the State Russian museum was again opened for visitors.

• Exhibition of works by Vladimir Grinberg (1896–1942) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[3]

• Exhibition of works by Nikolai Tyrsa (1887–1942) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.^[4]

• December 5 – The Monument to Vladimir Lenin was unveiled in Kiev. Authors of the monument sculptor Sergei Merkurov.^[5] Before setting in Kiev a sculpture was exhibited in a soviet pavilion on the World Exhibition of 1939 in New York.

Deaths

• September 13 – Eugene Lanceray (Russian: Лансере Евгений Евгеньевич), Russian soviet graphic artist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner (born 1875).

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  E. Lanceray

See also

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture

References

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4. Конова Л. С. Санкт—Петербургский Союз художников. Краткая хроника 1932—2009. Ч.2. 1946-1958 // Петербургские искусствоведческие тетради. Вып. 20. СПб, 2011. С.176.
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