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Alexander Mikhailovich Kurzanov was born in Voronezh in 1938. He studied painting at the Moscow University of Art from 1957 to 1960. He continued his studies from 1960 to 1965 at the Ryazan Art School, and at the Academy of Art in Tbilsi, Georgia, until 1972.
Since 1973, Kurzanov has participated in regional, republic, and national exhibitions. He was admitted to the Artists’ Union of the USSR in 1980. He has exhibited his works in Czechoslovakia, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. His paintings are in the collections of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Russian Artists’ Union in Moscow, and museums of art in several Russian cities, including the Kramskoi Art Museum and the Museum of Regional Studies in Voronezh. His paintings are also in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Although he paints striking landscapes of the Voronezh Region where he lives, he is also known for his historical and political paintings as well as his portraits of the elderly.
His works have been published in various books and journals, including:
- “Artists from Voronezh.” Voronezh, 2002.
- “Historical Voronezh.” Published by the Administration of Voronezh Region and the Regional Cultural Headquarters.
- “Modern Fine Arts of Voronezh.” PolyArt, Voronezh, 2003.
- “Russian Provincial Journal - Voronezh”, No. 4, 2001.
- “Russian Realist Art.” Russian Art, St. Petersburg, 1997.
- “Tradition Rediscovered.” CommonPlace Publishing, New Canaan, CT.
- “The Voronezh Artists’ Union.” A. V. Vashchenko, Voronezh, 2004.
- “The Voronezh Artists’ Union.” Voronezh, 2006.
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- A Letter from the Son
- A Little Girl with Ducks (sold)
- A Village in Georgia (sold)
- A. P. Kiselev
- Academic Dacha
- Afghan
- Anyuta
- Apple Tree in Bloom
- At the Creative House
- At the Dacha
- At the Lake
- At the River
- Autumn Season
- Bees in the Garden
- Beginning of Spring
- Blind Musician
- Bob with Grandson
- Break in the Fighting
- By the River
- By the River Bitug
- Chattanooga at Night
- Dispossessed
- Dzerzhinsky with the Homeless
- Early Snow (sold)
- Evening
- Evening
- Evening in the Country
- Family at the Expanse
- Fires of Russia
- Fleeing Home
- Flowering Fruit Trees (sold)
- Frozen Garden
- Grandfather Timofei (Old Man) (sold)
- Grandmother
- Haymaking Season
- Hot Summer
- House by the River
- House on a Hill
- In the Street
- Into the Forest
- Julie with the Old Samovar
- Kolliur. Mediterranean Sea. France
- Koltsov Square
- Lena Petrova
- Lenin with Children in the Village
- Letter from Afganistan
- Lunar Night (The Church of the Ascension)
- Making Sketches
- May
- Memoirs
- Moon over Chattanooga
- Mother-Heroine V. P. Paketova
- Near Barkhatnik Hills
- Old Fort
- Old Steamship
- Old Woman in the Kitchen
- Outskirts of Brodovogo
- Path in the Forest (sold)
- Pond at Zhelainom
- Pond behind the House
- Pond in the Country
- Portrait of A. P. Leonova
- Red Ashberries
- Rural Landscape (sold)
- Saying “Good-bye” to Winter
- Sea Gulls
- September
- Ships are Being Built
- Shrovetide
- Spring Day
- Spring in Chattanooga
- Square of the Sun Dial
- Stepanovna
- Students Harvesting (sold)
- Study
- Sunset
- The Bandura Player with Peasants
- The Church of Vsesvyatskoy
- The Forest Rubyant
- The Market
- The Old Woman with Geese
- The Old Woman with Goats (sold)
- Thought of Spring (sold)
- Two Mothers
- Two Sons
- Village Blacksmith
- Voronezh XVI
- Winter Road
- Woman with a Calf