Piotr Vasiliev

Background

Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev was born January 26, 1909, in Saint St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in the working-class family.

Education

In 1930, Piotr Vasiliev entered at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied of noted educators Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov, Arcady Rylov. In 1938 Piotr Vasiliev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Isaak Brodsky studio, together with Alexander Laktionov, Yuri Neprintsev, and other young artists.

Career

1919.", dedicated to the events of the Civil War in Russia in 1918-1921. After returning to Leningrad in the years 1939-1941 he taught painting in the Tavricheskaya Art School. He fought on the Leningrad Front, Karelian Front, and 3rd Ukrainian Front.

He was wounded and marked by military awards.

In 1944-1945, Piotr Vasiliev took part in the liberation of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Piotr Vasiliev has participated in art exhibitions since 1938.

He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre and historical paintings. In 1946 Piotr Vasiliev was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (since 1992 known as the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists).

His picturesque style is typical for students of Isaac Brodsky, and based on the constructive role of drawing, on classically constructed composition and delicate tonal relations, on transfer of lighting and shadow contrasts.

The artist used mainly broad painting and a rich palette of colors. Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev died on June 9, 1989, in Leningrad at the eighty-first year of life. His paintings reside in art museums and private collections in Russia, England, in the United States., Japan, France, and others

Achievements

• Order of the Red Star Medal "Foreign the Defence of Leningrad" Medal "Foreign the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "Foreign the Capture of Budapest" Medal "Foreign the Capture of Vienna".

Politics

His graduated work was historical painting named "Farewell member of the Communist Youth League at the front.

Membership

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Artists]

He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Connections

allies:

Nazi Germany

teacher:

Piotr Vasiliev