Elena Zhukova
Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).
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Elena Zhukova
- Name
- Yelena Zhukova
- Birth Name
- Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova
- Born
- 5 June 1906
- Birthplace
- Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Leningrad, Soviet Union
- Known for
- Painting
- Education
- Tavricheskaya Art School
- Movement
- Realism
- Died
- 1991. · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
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Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).
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Elena Zhukova (1906–1991) was a Soviet painter. The painter was born and died in Saint Petersburg.
Elena Zhukova studied at Saint Peter's School. The painter was a member of Artists' Union of the USSR. Elena Zhukova was active in painting. The painter was associated with realism.
Genres include landscape and still life. Elena Zhukova received Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
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• Name — Yelena Zhukova • Birth Name — Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova • Born — 5 June 1906 • Birthplace — Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire • Place of death — Leningrad, Soviet Union • Known for — Painting • Education — Tavricheskaya Art School • Movement — Realism
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- 1.Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.45.
- 2.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 402, 403, 445.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.18.
- Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.4. Кн.1. М., Искусство, 1983. С.145.
- Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.45.
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