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: Андре́й Андре́евич Мы́льников) (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.^[4] 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 awarded the Honorary Title «Hero of Socialist Labour».^[5]

See also

• 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

Sources

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