Yelena Zhukova | |
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Born | Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova 5 June 1906 |
Died | 31 October 1991 | (aged 85)
Education | Tavricheskaya Art School |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Realism |
Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting,[2] most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).
See also[edit]
- Fine Art of Leningrad
- Leningrad School of Painting
- List of 20th-century Russian painters
- List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
- Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.18.
- Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.4. Кн.1. М., Искусство, 1983. С.145.
- Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.45.