Alexander Savinov

Alexander Savinov studied at Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts and Imperial Academy of Arts. Yevgeny Kibrik and Yakov Basov are recorded as having studied under Alexander Savinov. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Distinctions recorded are Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

• Name — Alexander Ivanovich Savinov • Born — 17 July 1881 • Birthplace — Saratov, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire • Place of death — Leningrad, USSR • Field — Painting, Graphics • Training — Imperial Academy of Arts • Movement — Realism

Savinov was born on 17 July 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 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). Savinov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists since its inception in 1932. 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 25 February 1942 in the besieged Leningrad at the sixty-first year of life. His works reside in State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, in museums and private collections in Russia, Britain, France, and other countries.