Maria Rudnitskaya

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Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya
Realism

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya (

Leningrad Union of Artists,[1] regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.[2]

Biography

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was born June 17, 1916, in the city of

Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire, in family of railway engineers. In the years 1916 to 1927, Maria, alongside her parents, lived in Siberia for the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway
.

In 1932, after graduating, Maria Rudnitskaya came to Leningrad. In 1935, Maria Rudnitskaya entered the

V. Oreshnikov
, and M. Aslamazian.

In 1939, Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from Tavricheskaya Art School. In the same year, she entered the Department of Painting of the

.

In 1949, after a long break due to

Victor Oreshnikov, together with Nikolai Babasuk, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov, Victor Teterin, and other young artists. Her graduation work was a genre painting named "Motherhood".[3]

Since 1949, Maria Rudnitskaya participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, landscapes, still lives, genre paintings, and sketches done from nature. Maria Rudnitskaya tended to plein-air painting. She has successfully worked in the genre of children's portraits. Her portraits consist of inherent characteristics of precision, delicacy of tonal colouring, which matches her plein-air style. Upon his return to Leningrad, she taught first in the

Leningrad Union of Artists
since 1949.

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya died on January 1, 1983, in Leningrad at the sixty-seventh year of life. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in England, France, Italy, in the U.S., Russia,[4] and others.

References

  1. ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p.287.
  2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.135, 368, 388, 392-396, 407, 413, 415-417, 424.
  3. ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.61.
  4. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.

Bibliography

  • Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 287.
  • Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 135, 368, 388, 392-396, 407, 413, 415-417, 424. .
  • Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 61.