Pyotr Gurievich Korostelyov (1924 - 2017)
Pyotr Gurievich Korostelyov
Pyotr Gurievich Korostelyov (Russian: Пётр Гурьевич Коростелёв) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter, a representative of the Leningrad school.
Pyotr Korostelyov participated in the Great Patriotic War, after demobilization he graduated from the Leningrad Art and Graphic School and taught art, continuing to be actively engaged in creative work. His works cover a variety of genres, including portraits, genre compositions, still lifes and landscapes. For his contribution to art he was awarded the honorary titles "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation" and "People's Artist of the Russian Federation". The master's works are in various museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
| Date and place of birt: | 6 august 1924, Мучкапский, USSR |
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| Date and place of death: | 4 june 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality: | Russia, USSR |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Educator, Genre painter, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Art school / group: | Leningrad School |
| Genre: | Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Realism, Socialist realism, Contemporary art |
