Boris Korneev

Boris Vasilievich Korneev
Born	February 15, 1922 Petrozavodsk, Soviet Russia
Died	December 24, 1973 Leningrad, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Field	Painting, Art teaching
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism
Awards	Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Boris Vasilievich Korneev (Russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Корне́ев; February 15, 1922, Petrozavodsk, Soviet Russia – December 24, 1973, Leningrad, USSR) – Soviet Russian painter and art teacher, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre painting and portraits.

Biography

Self-portrait 1961

Boris Vasilievich Korneev was born February 15, 1922, in Petrozavodsk, Karelia Province, Soviet Russia.

In 1952 Boris Korneev graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Viktor Oreshnikov workshop. He studied of Boris Fogel, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Semion Abugov, Andrey Mylnikov.

Since 1952 Boris Korneev has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre pintings, landscapes, and still lifes. His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1975), and Saint Petersburg (1997).

Boris Korneev was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1954.

In years 1962–1973 Boris Korneev worked as Art teacher in Ilya Repin Institute, professor since (1972), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1965).

Boris Vasilievich Korneev died on December 24, 1973 in Leningrad at the fifty-first year of life. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, in the U.S., England, France, and throughout the world.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of Russian artists
• List of 20th century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• List of the Russian Landscape painters
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Gallery

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  Setting lad. 1954

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  Main street of Bijsk. 1953

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  Self-portrait. 1961

Bibliography

• Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. -p. 15.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 16 Juin 1989. – p. 46-47.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 27 Novembre 1989. – p. 27.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 12 Mars 1990. – p. 72-73.
• Peinture Russe. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 18 Fevrier, 1991. – p. 7,57.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 11 Juin 1990. – p. 58-59.
• L' Ecole de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. – p. 10-11.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. – London: Izomar 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 20, 21, 24. 362, 389–399, 403–406, 442, 446. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.

External links

• Boris Korneev on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.