Background
Savinov was born on July 17, 1881, in Saratov in the family of the merchant - timber merchants.
Savinov was born on July 17, 1881, in Saratov in the family of the merchant - timber merchants.
In 1902-1908 Savinov studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint St. Petersburg at Dmitry Kardovsky and Yan Tsionglinsky.
After graduation he traveled to Italy as a pensioner of the Academy of Fine Arts. After returning from Italy Savinov begins his teaching career, which will continue until the end of life. He oversaw the personal painting workshop in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, headed the department of composition, was vice-rector for scientific and academic work.
Among the pupils of Alexander Savinov in different years were Alexei Pakhomov, Mikhail Natarevich, Dmitry Mochalsky, Eugene Charushin, Ludmila Ronchevskaya and other well-known Russian artists.
Among the most famous works Savinov are paintings "Portrait of the Wife" (1909), "On the Balcony" (1909), "Old Roman Models" (1910), "Portrait of Isaak Brodsky" (1910), "Portrait of Andrievskaya" (1912), "Portrait of Neslukhovskaya" (1923), "Portrait of Simonov" (1926), "Portrait of the son" (1926), "The adoption of the decree on the establishment of the Red Army" (1934). After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he participated in the preparations for the evacuation of the Hermitage collection, personally ready to be sent to the rear of paintings by Rembrandt.
He also worked on the posters and the manuscript of his book "The artist"s work on the painting. Alexander Savinov died on February 25, 1942 in the besieged Leningrad at the sixty-first year of life.
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Savinov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists since its inception in 1932.