Lev Alexandrovich Russov (1926 - 1987)
Lev Alexandrovich Russov
Lev Alexandrovich Russov (Russian: Ле́в Алекса́ндрович Ру́сов) was a Soviet artist. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, as well as a sculptor.
Lev Russov created a gallery of portraits of his contemporaries, which brought him recognition. He managed to "capture" the fleeting state of the model's nature and bring it to the viewer. The artist also turned to the historical genre, creating a series of paintings about Till Eulenspiegel, whom he endowed with features of external resemblance to himself. A significant part of the master's artistic heritage consists of still lifes, as well as wooden sculpture, which at the end of the artist's career began to dominate his oeuvre, supplanting painting.
| Date and place of birt: | 31 january 1926, St. Petersburg, USSR |
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| Date and place of death: | 20 february 1987, St. Petersburg, USSR |
| Nationality: | Russia, USSR |
| Period of activity: | XX century |
| Specialization: | Graphic artist, Painter, Portraitist, Sculptor |
| Art school / group: | Leningrad School, Ленинградский Союз художников |
| Genre: | Genre art, History painting, Portrait, Still life, Деревянная скульптура |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Realism, Socialist realism |
