Ovsyannikov, Leonid Fedorovich

Born May 25, 1880 in the village of Yurino, Nizhny Novgorod province in the family of a rural teacher. In 1900 he graduated from the Kazan Art School, in 1909 the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in the workshop of V.V. Mate . He lived in Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad. He was mainly engaged in easel graphics, worked in the technique of color etching, lithography, linocut.

Member and exhibitor of the Society of Artists. A. I. Kuindzhi ". Since 1932 a member of LSSH . Member of the largest exhibitions of Soviet fine art of the 1920-30s in the USSR and abroad ^[1] . He taught at the Kiev Architectural Institute (1918-1922), the Leningrad Art and Industrial College , LIZA named after I. E. Repin (1938-1960).

After the start of World War II, he remained in the besieged Leningrad. On the instructions of the Political Administration of the Leningrad Front, together with other artists, he creates campaign leaflets and posters. In February 1942, together with the institute, he was evacuated to Samarkand, where he continued his pedagogical and creative work. After returning from evacuation in July 1944, he worked as a professor in the drawing department of the LIZAA named after I. E. Repin . Personal exhibitions in Leningrad in 1941 ^[2] and 1945. The author of textbooks "Engraving on cardboard" (1952), "The study of etching techniques in relation to the program of the first and second art courses" (1953). He left memories of the meetings with I. Repin, published in the collection "Artists of Leningrad" in 1959. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation .

Among the works created by Ovsyannikov, etchings “Portrait of V. Lenin” (1926, Russian Museum ), “S. Kirov on the podium " ^[3] (1935, Russian Museum )," Pechersk "(1949)," Landscape with the Moon " ^[4] (1950)," Collective Farm Herd " ^[5] ," Landscape " ^[6] (both 1959 ), “Children on the Beach” (1963), “On the Leilupe Bank” ^[7] (1964), “Birch Trees” ^[8] (1967) and others.

Ovsyannikov Leonid Fedorovich died on March 30, 1970 in Leningrad in the ninetieth year of his life. His works are in the Russian Museum , the Tretyakov Gallery , in other museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.

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• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Catalog. L., Lenizdat, 1951. P.46.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Catalog. L — M., Art, 1951. P.45.
• Spring exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1954. Catalog . L., Izogiz, 1954. P. 43.
• Autumn exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. 1956 year. Catalog. L., Leningrad artist, 1958. P.57.
• 1917 - 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalog. L., Leningrad artist, 1958. P.67.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Catalog . L., Artist of the RSFSR, 1961. P.87.
• Republican art exhibition "Soviet Russia". Catalog . M., Soviet artist, 1960. S. 178.
• Leningrad. Zone exhibition . L., Artist of the RSFSR, 1965. P.109.
• The third republican art exhibition "Soviet Russia". Catalog. M., Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, 1967. P.114.
• Fine art of Leningrad. Exhibition catalog. L., Artist of the RSFSR, 1976. P.183.
• We remember ... Artists, art historians are participants in the Great Patriotic War . M., Union of Artists of Russia, 2000. P.205.
• Ivanov S. Unknown Socialist Realism. Leningrad school. SPB., NP-Print, 2007. P.403. ISBN 5-901724-21-6 , ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7 .

• Fine art of Leningrad
• List of painters of the Leningrad Union of Artists