Background
Boris Ivanovich Shamanov was born September 15, 1931, in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Boris Ivanovich Shamanov was born September 15, 1931, in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Boris Shamanov studied of Piotr Buchkin, Alexei Sokolov, Sergei Petrov, Kirill Iogansen. In 1956 Boris Shamanov graduated in the Alexander Kazantsev workshop.
In 1948, Boris Shamanov entered at the first course of the department of monumental painting of the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. Since 1957 Boris Shamanov has participated in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, still lifes with flowers in exterior, genre scenes, and landscapes.
Boris Shamanov worked in oils, tempera, and watercolors.
Since 1960, Boris Shamanov combined his creative activities with pedagogical work at the painting department of the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry named after Vera Mukhina. In years of 1988-2008, he was a professor and head of painting department.
In 1984 Boris Shamanov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1995 he was awarded the honorary title of People"s Artist of the Russian Federation. Boris Ivanovich Shamanov died on March 1, 2008 in Saint St. Petersburg.
His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Treryakov, in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, United States of America, China, Italy, Japan, and other countries.
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He was a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Boris Shamanov was a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists from 1960.