Andrei Mylnikov

Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov
Born (1919-02-22)22 February 1919
Pokrovsk, Saratov Governorate, USSR
Died 16 May 2012 (age 93)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality Russian
Education Repin Institute of Arts
Known for Painting, Teaching
Movement Realism
Awards Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour

Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov (Russian: Мыльников Андрей Андреевич) (22 February 1919, in Pokrovsk, Saratov Governorate 16 May 2012, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Stalin Prize winner, and Lenin Prize winner, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg.[1] He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (former Leningrad Union of Artists),[2] and professor of painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Soviet art, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad school of painting.[3]

Biography

Mylnikov was born in 1919 in Pokrovsk, Saratov Governorate. In 1946, Mylnikov graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a student of Igor Grabar and Victor Oreshnikov. In 1948, he graduated from the graduate school of the same institute. Professor since 1957. For more than 50 years Mylnikov taught in the Repin Institute of Arts. He is a Head of personal studio of Monumental painting. At the same time he was head of the Department of Painting of Repin Institute. In 1990, he was avarded the Honorary Title «Hero of Socialist Labour».

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  1. В Петербурге скончался народный художник Андрей Мыльников, участник обороны Ленинграда и создатель образа Ленина-вождя (in Russian). NEWSru. 2012-05-17. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  2. Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.89.
  3. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 15, 19, 20, 358, 362, 363, 367, 370, 387-392, 396, 397, 399-404, 406.
  4. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.358, 362, 363, 367, 370.

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