Background

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva was born on May 17, 1871 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). She was a daughter of Pyotr Ivanovich Ostroumov, a senator, and Maria Klimentevna Chekhovich.

Education

During the period from 1889 to 1892, Anna studied at Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, where Vasily Vasilyevich Mate was her mentor. In 1892, she enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts, graduating in 1900. There, at the Academy, Ilya Repin, Konstantin Savitsky and Pavel Chistyakov were among her teachers.

Between 1898-1899, Ostroumova-Lebedeva attended the Académie Colarossi in Paris.

Career

Between 1898-1899, Anna worked as an assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler in his studio. Since 1899, she actively participated in the activities of Mir iskusstva art group in Saint Petersburg and the following year, in 1900, she became its member. In 1901, Ostroumova-Lebedeva produced first series of woodcuts of Saint Petersburg cityscapes for Sergei Diaghilev.

Throughout the 1900's and the 1910's, Anna travelled around Europe and worked as a book illustrator. After Russian Revolution of 1917, she acted as a member of People's Commissariat for Education Expert Committee.

Since 1918 to 1922, Ostroumova-Lebedeva held the post of a teacher at Higher Institute of Photography and Photographic Engineering (present-day Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television). During the period from 1934 to 1935, Anna taught at Ilya Repin Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture (present-day Imperial Academy of Arts).

During World War II, she remained in the Siege of Leningrad, where she continued to create paintings and was engaged in social work.

Achievements

• Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva was a renowned Russian painter. She was also known as one of the pioneers of the woodcut technique in Russia. Also, Anna received many awards, including Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1946), Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
  
  Also, in 1946, she was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Works

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  • Petersburg. Rostral column under the snow.

  • Self-portrait

  • Gear

  • Moonlit night landscape

  • Neva early in the morning

  • Venice. Grand Canal. Grey day.

  • Crimea. Monastery of St. Cosmas and St. Damian.

  • Construction of the Palace Bridge

  • Exchange

  • Portrait of Leo Tolstoy

  • Road to the "White Birch"

  • Lithuanian castle

  • In the park. Poplar trees.

  • Petersburg. New Holland.

  • Landscape with a River (Norway between Bergen and Christiania)

  • Leningrad. Summer garden in winter.

  • Petersburg. Rostral column and Exchange.

  • Biron Palace and barges

  • Alexander Palace in Detskoye Selo

  • Debacle

  • Venice

  • St. Isaac's Cathedral on a foggy day

  • Alley in Tsarskoe Selo

  • The valley Of the river Slavyanka

  • Night

  • Bouquet in a Vase

  • Perspective of the Constantine Palace

  • Rostral column

  • In the park

  • Round pond

  • Fortress 'Beep'

  • Rainbow

  • Sea. Stones.

  • Amsterdam. The market of iron.

  • Spring. Snow.

  • Leningrad. View of the fortress at night.

  • Trees near the "Apollo Colonnade"

  • Petersburg. Rostral column and customs.

  • Leningrad. Fishing boys.

  • French embankment

  • Finland with a blue sky

  • Landscape around the Viscontiev Bridge

  • Petrograd. Red columns.

  • Academy of Arts

  • View of Kislovodsk

  • A window

  • View of St. Petersburg

  • View of the Alcazar. Segovia.

  • Leningrad. View from Trinity Bridge.

  • Portrait of N. N. Evreinov

  • Evening

  • Spring motif. View from Stone Island to Krestovsky and Yelagin Islands.

  • The Moon

  • Petersburg. Bridge with centaurs.

  • The Lion and the fortress. Woodcut for the magazine "World"

  • The gate and the road to "Etyup"

  • Group of trees near the "White Birch"

  • Amsterdam. The Old Warehouses.

  • Lions and Castle (Ice drifts and Fortress)

  • Colonnade of Exchange and Peter and Paul Fortress

  • Winter

  • Crimea. Koktebel. Ruins of Kordon.

  • Willows near Novosilviysky Bridge

  • Chain Bridge in St. Petersburg

  • Pavlovsk. Rozopavilonny pond.

  • View of the palace. Rain.

  • Pavlovsk. Novosilviysky bridge.

  • Petersburg. The Summer Garden in winter.

  • View from the Tuchkov Bridge

  • The monument to Peter I

  • Petersburg. Kryukov Canal.

  • School House of Peter I

  • Pine tree

  • The Amsterdam Port

  • Linden avenue and the monument to Paul I

  • Academy of Arts

  • View from the Petrovsky Park

  • Cypress trees

  • Petersburg. Fontanka.

  • Admiralty under the snow

  • French embankment

  • A View of the Neva River

  • Barge

  • Fontanka near the Summer Garden

  • Willows near the palace

  • Amsterdam

  • Leningrad. Fontanka and the Summer Garden in frost.

  • Landscape near the "Pil-tower"

  • Neva through the columns of the Exchange

  • Fiesole, Italy

  • Bridge with griffins

Membership

• USSR Academy of Arts

  1949

• Mir iskusstva art group

  1900

Connections

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva married Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev, a chemist, in 1905.

Father:

Pyotr Ivanovich Ostroumov

Mother:

Maria Klimentevna Chekhovich

husband:

Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev

mentor:

Vasily Vasilyevich Mate

mentor:

Ilya Repin

mentor:

Konstantin Savitsky

mentor:

Pavel Chistyakov