German Yegoshin Explained

German Pavlovich Yegoshin
Birth Date:8 April 1931
Birth Place:Leningrad, USSR
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Known For:Painting
Education:Repin Institute of Arts
Movement:Realism

German Pavlovich Yegoshin (Russian: Герман Павлович Егошин) (April 4, 1931, Leningrad — October 2, 2009, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists,[1] and was regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.[2]

Biography

German Pavlovich Yegoshin was born April 4, 1931, in Leningrad. From 1949 to 1950 he studied in Tavricheskaya Art school, and in 1950 to 1953 in Secondary Art School. From 1953 to 1959 he studied on Department of Paintings of the Repin Institute of Arts, as a pupil of Boris Ioganson.[3]

In 1959 he began to participate in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre composition, landscapes, and still lifes. In 1961 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. FromIn 1960-1970, Yegoshin taught at the art college and the Vera Mukhina Art Institute.

Yegoshin died on October 2, 2009, at age 78. His paintings reside in the Russian Museum,[4] the Tretyakov Gallery, and in art museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Germany, France, and other countries.

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  1. Справочник членов Союза художников СССР. Том 1. — М: Советский художник, 1979. — с.356.
  2. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 21, 397, 399—402, 405—407, 444.
  3. Юбилейный Справочник выпускников Санкт-Петербургского академического института живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры имени И. Е. Репина Российской Академии художеств. 1915—2005. — Санкт Петербург: «Первоцвет», 2007. — с.82.
  4. Время перемен. Искусство 1960—1985 в Советском Союзе. — Санкт-Петербург: Государственный Русский музей, 2006. C.224, 393.