Maria Zubreeva

Maria Abramovna Zubreeva
Born	August 21, 1900 Korukovka, Chernigov Governorate, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Died	October 8, 1991 Saint Petersburg, USSR
Field	Painting, Graphics
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism

Maria Abramovna Zubreeva (Russian: Мари́я Абра́мовна Зубре́ева; August 21, 1900, village Korukovka, the Chernigov Governorate, Ukraine, Russian Empire — October 8, 1991, Saint Petersburg, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and designer, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Biography

Maria Abramovna (Avraamovna) Zubreeva was born August 21, 1900 in the village Korukovka of the Chernigov Governorate, located in the historical Left-bank Ukraine region of the Russian Empire.

In 1923, Maria Zubreeva entered at the first course of the Leningrad Vkhutein (The Leningrad Higher Institute of Industrial Art, before 1918 known as the High Art School under Imperial Academy of Arts; since 1944 known as the Repin Institute of Arts), where she studied under Vladimir Konashevich and Dmitry Mitrokhin. In 1927 she graduated from the Leningrad Vkhutein. Her graduation work was designof book "A Week", by Yuri Libedinsky.

Since 1928 Maria Zubreeva has participated in art exhibitions. She painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, worked in watercolors, tempera, and monumental painting. Most famous for her watercolor portraits of contemporaries. In 1932 Maria Zubreeva was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (since 1992 known as the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists).

In 1930-1950s Maria Zubreeva together with husband artist Sergei Zakharov a lot worked in Tajikistan, where she designed the interiors of public buildings.

Personal exhibitions of works of Maria Zubreeva were in Leningrad (1951, 1980, 1984), in Saint-Petersburg (1996), and in Moscow (1961, 1965).

Maria Abramovna Zubreeva died on October 8, 1991 in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in the lot of Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Italy, France, England 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
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Bibliography

• Artists of the USSR. Biography and Bibliography Dictionary. Volume 4, part 1. - Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1983. - p. 359.
• Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p. 49.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 27, 144, 188, 361, 383, 385, 387-393, 402, 405, 413, 415, 416, 420, 422, 444. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.- p. 375. ISBN 978-5-903677-01-6.

External links

• Maria Zubreeva 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.