Background
Victor Alexandrovich Otiev was born on February 24, 1935, in the city of Vladikavkaz, Northern Osetia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Victor Alexandrovich Otiev was born on February 24, 1935, in the city of Vladikavkaz, Northern Osetia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
In 1955 he comes to Leningrad and entered at the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin where he was a student of Boris Ugarov, Andrei Mylnikov, Nikita Medovikov, Vladislav Anisovich. In 1961 Victor Otiev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Victor Oreshnikov workshop. His graduation work was genre painting named "A Herdsman".
Since 1950, Victor Otiev has participated in art exhibitions.
He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, scenes with horses, sketches from the life. One of the leading themes of his art - a equestrian sport.
His personal exhibition was in Leningrad in 1980. Victor Alexandrovich Otiev died on June 7, 1999 in Saint St. Petersburg.
Paintings by Victor Otiev reside in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, United States of America, Japan, Italy, and other countries.
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Victor Otiev was a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 - the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1967.