Leo Lankinen
Illustration — Leo Lankinen • Illustration — Cross of Sorrow Leo Lankinen (Langinen) (Leo Fomich Lankinen) (13 July 1926 – 17 December 1996) was a Karelian sculptor and painter. His last work was the Cross of Sorrow, a memorial dedicated to Soviet and Finnish soldiers perished in the Winter War of 1939-1940.
Also recorded as Leo Fomich Langinen
Leo Lankinen
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- Born
- 1926 · Saint Petersburg Governorate.
- Died
- 1996 · Petrozavodsk.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
- Honours
- People's Painter of the RSFSR · Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Languages
- Russian
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Illustration — Leo Lankinen • Illustration — Cross of Sorrow Leo Lankinen (Langinen) (Leo Fomich Lankinen) (13 July 1926 – 17 December 1996) was a Karelian sculptor and painter. His last work was the Cross of Sorrow, a memorial dedicated to Soviet and Finnish soldiers perished in the Winter War of 1939-1940.
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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1926 at Saint Petersburg Governorate. It is also recorded that leo Lankinen died in 1996 at Petrozavodsk.
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Saint Petersburg Governorate.
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• 2006: Karelian State Prize in Arts (posthumously) • Ilya Repin State Prize • 1986: Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts • 1968: People's Artist of RSFSR • 1967: Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Arts, for the cycle "Мой современник" of portraits • 1959: Meritorious Artist of RSFSR The house in Petrozavodsk where he lived during 1960-1996 (№16, ул. Куйбышева) bears a memorial plaque dedicated to him. In 2003 a collection Скульптор Лео Ланкинен was published, of memoirs of Zurab Tsereteli, Tair Salakhov, philologist Eino Karhu, sculptor Boris Plenkin, and others about the sculptor.
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- 1.Калинин Е. С. Художники Карелии, Petrozavodsk, 2000, pp.150—151,
- 2.Карелия: энциклопедия, (Karelia: The Encyclopedia) vol. 2, Petrozavodsk, PetroPress Publishers, 2009,
- 3."Незабываемый Лео Ланкинен", Karelia, No. 61, June 8, 2006
- 4."УКАЗ ГЛАВЫ РЕСПУБЛИКИ КАРЕЛИЯ", Karelia, No. 66, June 22, 2006
- 5.Скульптор Лео Ланкинен ed. Zifa Yusupova (Зифа Юсупова), Petrozavodsk, 2003
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