Semion Rotnitsky Explained

Semion Aronovich Rotnitsky
Birth Date:28 December 1915
Birth Place:Minsk, Russian Empire
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Field:Painting
Training:Repin Institute of Arts
Movement:Realism
Awards:Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War
Medal "For the Victory Over Germany"
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

Semion Aronovich Rotnitsky (Russian: Семён Аронович Ротницкий; December 28, 1915 — 2004) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Art worker of Tatar Republic, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists),[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad.

Rotnitsky is regarded as a representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[2] most famous for his portrait paintings. From 1948 through 1960 he was senior lecturer and director of the Kazan Art School. His memoirs are titled "The Strength of the Beauty".[3]

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  1. Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.111.
  2. Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 18, 20, 21, 24, 391, 393, 394, 396, 398-406, 439, 445.
  3. Ротницкий С. Сила красоты. Записки художника. СПб., 2000.