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Oleg Leonidovich Lomakin was born in Krasny Kholm, Tver province, in 1924. He studied in the studio of the Palace of Pioneers in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in the 1930s, at the Leningrad Intermediate Art School until 1942, when he joined the Russian military and was active in World War II until 1944, when he was wounded. He returned to the Leningrad Intermediate Art School and again studied there from 1944 until 1946. He studied at the Repin Institute of Art from 1946 until 1952 in the studio of professor and academician Boris Ioganson.
Lomakin holds the title “Honored Artist of Russia”.
Active in Leningrad, he began exhibiting in 1949. He is a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, and has taken place in municipal, zonal, republican and All-Russian shows. Important shows include ‘Soviet Russia’, Moscow, 1960.
He specialized in portraits and genre works with a strong portrait element. He was a leading Leningrad realist in the 1950s and 1960s. His work has been exhibited in more than 20 museums in Russia and abroad - Holland, Finland, the UK, Japan, and the United States - including the Smithsonian International Gallery in Washington, D.C.
His works have been published in numerous books and journals, including:
- “Artists of the Russian World.” St. Petersburg, 2005.
- “A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Izomar Limited, London, 1998.
- “Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism.” Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, 1994.
- “In the Russian Tradition. A Historic Collection of 20th Century Russian Painting.” Smithsonian International Gallery, Washington, D.C., with the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN, 2004.
- “Soviet Impressionism.” Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd., Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2001.
- “The Visual Arts of Leningrad.” Artist RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic), Leningrad, 1981.
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