Background
Boris Alexandrovich Fogelv was born January 18, 1872, in Buynaksk on North Caucasus. His father was a career military man, Colonel, had spent almost all his life in the campaigns for the conquest of the Caucasus.
Boris Alexandrovich Fogelv was born January 18, 1872, in Buynaksk on North Caucasus. His father was a career military man, Colonel, had spent almost all his life in the campaigns for the conquest of the Caucasus.
His mother Olga Flovitskaya was a close relative of the artist Konstantin Flavitsky. In 1880, after the death of his father, Boris moved with his mother in Tbilisi. While studying in high school, he engaged in drawing at the private studio of Zakharov.
In 1891, Boris Fogel comes to Moscow, where he entered the medical faculty of Moscow University.
At the same time he continued studies in painting, using advices of known artists Vasily Polenov, Vladimir Makovsky, Konstantin Korovin, and Sergei Korovin. Then about a year engaged in a private studio of Leonid Pasternak.
In 1896 Boris Fogel lived and studied in Paris. After returning to Saint St. Petersburg, Fogel joined the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Repin and Kovalevsky.
In 1902 he graduated from Academy of Arts as an artist of painting, his graduate work named «An Evening».
Since 1934 and until his death Boris Fogel taught at the Repin Institute of Arts. Nikolai Baskakov
Evgenia Baykova
Irina Baldina
Vladimir Chekalov
Nadezhda Shteinmiller
Nina Veselova
Abram Grushko
Maria Rudnitskaya
Alexei Eriomin
Igor Veselkin
Leonid Kabachek
Lev Orekhov
Maya Kopitseva
Boris Korneev
Alexander Koroviakov
Marina Kozlovskaya
Elena Kostenko
Sergei Lastochkin
Anatoli Levitin
Andrei Mylnikov
Mikhail Trufanov
Ruben Zakharian
and a lot of others
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He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and participated in exhibitions of the leningrad artists.