Kapitolina Rumiantseva

Kapitolina Rumiantseva studied at St. Petersburg art school by Rerikh N.K. the recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life and landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg.

• Name — Kapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva • Born — December 16, 1925 • Birthplace — Leningrad, USSR • Died — August 8, 2002 (aged 76) • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation • Field — Painting, Graphics • Training — Tavricheskaya Art School • Movement — Realism

Kapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva was born December 16, 1925, in the Leningrad. In 1945, Kapitolina Rumiantseva entered at the Tavricheskaya Art School, where she studied of George Shakh, Dina Rezanskaya, Valentina Petrova, and Mikhail Shuvaev. She graduated Art School in 1950. After graduation, in 1950–1969 years Kapitolina Rumiantseva taught drawing and painting in secondary art school. Since 1970, Kapitolina Rumiantseva has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes, sketches from the life. Most famous for her sensual still lifes with wildlife flowers and fruits in interior and exterior. Her painting style evolved in the direction to decorative and local color while maintaining interest to the object, for transfer of its texture and material tangibility. Her images invariably filled with lyricism and poetic sound. In 1973 Kapitolina Rumiantseva was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists (since 1992 known as the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists). At the beginning of 1990 her works were at expositions of some exhibitions abroad with other Leningrad artists. Kapitolina Alexeevna Rumiantseva died in Saint Petersburg in 2002. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in Russia, France, Korea, in the U.S., England, Germany, China, Italy, and others. Her style of painting developed to the intensification of ornamentality nevertheless without loss of an interest to the object with its touchableness. Her images are lyrical and very poetical. She is an author of paintings: «Stil life with Fruits» (1965), «Stil life with Melon» (1968), «Stil life with White Cup» (1969), «Irises» (1970), «Stil life with Orange», «Peones» (1971), «Dream», «Elder» (both 1972), «Stil life with Apple Tree Branches» (1973), «In the Garden at Early Spring», «Cloudy Day», «Натюрморт с рыбами» (all 1974), «After the Rain» (1980), «Autumn in Ozerki» (1985), «Autumn» (1987), «Peones» (1990), «Lilac» (1991) and others.