Nikolai Ovchinnikov
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ovchinnikov (14 October 1918 – February 2004) was a Russian painter and professor. An ethnic Chuvash, he was the People's Artist of Russia and Chuvashia and Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Chuvash Republic.
Also recorded as Nikolai Vassilievich Ovchinnikov · Nikolai Vasilevich Ovchinnikov
Nikolai Ovchinnikov
- Name
- Nikolai Ovchinnikov
- Born
- 14 October 1918
- Birthplace
- Mizhuli, Soviet Union
- Died
- February 2004 (aged 85)
- Place of death
- Cheboksary, Russia
- Field
- Painting
- Training
- Repin Institute of Arts
- Awards
- People's Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Chuvash Republic
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Honours
- Order of the Patriotic War and 2nd class · Order of Friendship of Peoples · People's Painter of the RSFSR
- Languages
- Russian
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Ovchinnikov (14 October 1918 – February 2004) was a Russian painter and professor. An ethnic Chuvash, he was the People's Artist of Russia and Chuvashia and Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Chuvash Republic.
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Nikolai Ovchinnikov (1918–2004) was a Russian and Soviet artist and painter. Born in Mariinsko-Posadsky District, the artist died in Cheboksary.
Nikolai Ovchinnikov studied at Repin Institute of Arts. The artist worked for Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University. Nikolai Ovchinnikov was active in painting.
Genres include landscape. Languages used include Russian. The artist received Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and People's Painter of the RSFSR.
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Biography
Biography
Nikolai Ovchinnikov studied at Repin Institute of Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Employment is recorded with Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Order of Friendship of Peoples and People's Painter of the RSFSR.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Nikolai Ovchinnikov • Born — 14 October 1918 • Birthplace — Mizhuli, Soviet Union • Died — February 2004 (aged 85) • Place of death — Cheboksary, Russia • Field — Painting • Training — Repin Institute of Arts • Awards — People's Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Chuvash Republic
Biography
Biography
He was born in the village of Mizhuli in Mariinsko-Posadsky District of the Chuvash Republic in 1918. Studied in Alatyr Art School (1937). During 1939–1945, Ovchinnikov fought in the Soviet-Finnish War on the Karelian Isthmus and World War II. Since 1944, a member of the USSR Union of Artists. In 1951 he graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute of Arts, Sculpture and Architecture of the USSR Academy of Arts in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg (workshop of Professor R.R. Frenz). A Candidate degree in Art Studies in 1954. Since 1960, he was an associate professor of the Chair of Arts at the Fine and Graphic Arts Department of the Chuvash State Teacher's Institute named after I.Ya. Yakovlev. Secretary of the Board of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1961–1983). Chairman of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Chuvash ASSR (1963–1989). People's Artist of the Chuvash ASSR (1968). Professor of Fine Arts Chair (1973). Full member of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Chuvash Republic (1995). RSFSR People's Artist (1984).
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
He participated in regional, Ull-Union, All-Russian exhibitions and in exhibitions abroad. Personal exhibitions in the US, Japan, France, UK, and Germany.
Gallery
Gallery
Paintings by Nikolai Ovchinnikov are in 34 museums in Russia and abroad, and in private collections.
Identity
Identity
Nikolai Ovchinnikov is recorded with the occupation visual artist. Classed in the genre landscape painting. Recorded as a citizen of Soviet Union.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1918
Nikolai Ovchinnikov born at Mariinsko-Posadsky District.
2004
Nikolai Ovchinnikov died on 18 February 2004.
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Mariinsko-Posadsky District.
Birth place
Cheboksary.
Death place
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reference work
- “Nikolai Ovchinnikov”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• He was awarded with the Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree) and the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978) • He was awarded the State Prize of the Chuvash Republic named after K. V. Ivanov (1975) • His name was entered into the Honorary Book of Labour Fame and Heroism of the Chuvash Autonomous Republic (1989) • He was awarded a gold medal of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Chuvash Republic (2002).
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