Boris Vasilievich Korneev (1922 - 1973)

Boris Vasilievich Korneev

Boris Vasilievich Korneev (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Корне́ев) was a Soviet artist. He is known as a painter, teacher, representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Boris Korneev especially excelled in the portrait genre, and also the leading genre in his work was the thematic painting. The artist was attracted by heroic themes and the image of the dream of a strong person. The peculiarities of his creative manner were striving for simplicity of the subject line, monumentality of the form, laconic color scheme, restrained coloring, sustained mostly in cold tones.