Pavel Ivanovich Levin

Background

Pavel Ivanovich Levin was born on June 24, 1895 in Blagoveshchenka, Altai Krai, Russian Federation in the family of a priest.

Education

Pavel Ivanovich graduated from the Voronezh Theological School (1910), Voronezh Theological Seminary (1917), where he studied in the drawing class of the artist Odintsov. He studied at the Voronezh free art workshops (1918), the Rostov-on-Don art school (1920), the Moscow Higher State Art-Technical Studios (1921), the Voronezh Art-Industrial Technical School, where his teachers were A.A. Buchkuri and V.P. Trofimov (1923-1924).

Career

Pavel Ivanovich Levin served as a photographer and a painter in the Red Army (1919-1920). Participated in exhibitions since 1924. In 1922-1923, 1927-1930 he was engaged in agriculture in the village of Russkaya Gvozdyovka. In the years 1930-1938 he lived in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). An exhibitor of the Leningrad and Moscow exhibitions. In 1938 he returned to his homeland. Participated in the exhibition in 1940. Since 1949, Pavel Ivanovich was engaged in farming and gardening in the village of Russian Gvozdyovka and continued to paint.

Levin's solo exhibitions were held in the Semiluksky Palace of refractories (1973) and in the club of the Ramon sugar factory (1982). In the early 1980s, he exhibited at an art salon-shop on Mir Street in Voronezh.

Membership

• Leningrad City Committee "Hudozhnik" , Saint Petersburg City

  1933 - 1935

• Leningrad Cooperative of Artists and the Union of Artists , Saint Petersburg City

  1936

• Voronezh Association "Hudozhnik" , Voronezh