Nikolai Kostrov

• Name — Nikolai Ivanovich Kostrov • Born — May 19, 1901 • Birthplace — Vasilievskoye, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — April 11, 1995 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation • Field — Painting, Graphic artist • Training — Repin Institute of Arts • Movement — Realism

Nikolai Ivanovich Kostrov was born May 19, 1901, in the village Vasilievskoye, Vyatka Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1922, Nikolai Kostrov entered at the Leningrad VKHUTEIN (The Leningrad Higher Institute of Industrial Art, before 1918 known as the High Art School under Imperial Academy of Arts), where he studied under Alexander Savinov, Alexander Karev, and Michail Matjuschin. In 1926 Nikolai Kostrov graduated from the VKHUTEIN together with Yuri Vasnetsov, Sofia Zaklikovskaya, Pavel Kondratiev, Vasily Kuptsov, Valentin Kurdov, Kirill Kustodiev, Evgenia Magaril, Gerta Nemenova, Alexei Pochteny, George Traugot, Evgeny Charushin, and other young artists. Since 1926 Nikolai Kostrov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, worked as easel painter, graphic artist, and art illustrator. His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1937, 1962, 1973, 1979), in Saint-Petersburg (1996), and in Moscow (1974, 1983), partly together with his wife and artist Anna Kostrova. Nikolai Kostrov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1932. Nikolai Ivanovich Kostrov died in Saint Petersburg on April 11, 1995. His paintings and graphics reside in State Russian Museum, in the Art Museums and private collections in the Russia, Germany, France, and others.

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation graphic artist. It is also recorded that nikolai Kostrov is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Institutional cataloguing adds that nikolai Kostrov is recorded as a citizen of Russia. The register further records that nikolai Kostrov is recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that nikolai Kostrov was born on 19 May 1901. Institutional cataloguing adds that nikolai Kostrov died on 11 April 1995. Kostrov worked at Saint Petersburg. Associated with realism.