Lavrov, Alexander Nikolaevich

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Alexander Nikolaevich Lavrov was born in the town of Kursk in 1955. He began studying art in 1972 at the State Education/Teacher Institute in Kursk. After he graduated from there in 1977, Lavrov becan an active teaching career and also continued with his personal creative work.

In 1980, Lavrov participated in several large art exhibitions, which led to an invitation for him to teach at the Voronezh Institute of Arts as a professor. That same year, he continued his education at the Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.

In 1990 he became a member of the Russian Artists’ Union. He is now president of the Voronezh chapter of the Artists’ Union. His work is represented in Moscow in the galleries “Mars” and “Rebirth” (Vozrozhdenie). Others of his paintings are maintained in the Voronezh Kramskoi Museum of Fine Arts and in the Museum of Fine Arts in Belorod.

Over the past decade, Lavrov’s works have been exhibited world-wide in such countries as Germany, Spain, and the United States. His works may be found in private collections in Argentina, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Russia, the Ukraine, and the United States.

The majority of Lavrov’s work consists of portraits and landscapes.

His works have been published in various books and journals, including: