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Gleb Aleksandrovich Savinov was born in Natalievka, Ukraine, in 1915. His father, Alexander Ivanovich Savinov, was a well-established artist and Gleb’s first teacher. He eventually entered the Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and studied there from 1934 to 1940 under A. Osmyorkin.
Savinov taught at the Repin Institute from 1945 to 1947 and then at the Mukhina Higher Art School from 1949. He was named an Honored Artist of the Soviet Union in 1973.
Important shows include:
- All-Union Art Exhibition; Moscow, 1952.
- Soviet Russia; Moscow, 1960.
Museums:
- Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
- Museums of the History of the City, St. Petersburg.
- Gemalgalerie, Dresden
Savinov’s works are also in private collections in Russia, Europe, and the United States.
He lived and worked throughout his life in St. Petersburg. He was married to artist Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya, who lived only 20 days after his death in 2000. Olga’s works appear in the background in many of Savinov’s paintings. His family was very important to him and was often the subject matter of his light-filled paintings.
His works have been published in various books and journals, including:
- “A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Izomar Limited, London, 1998.
- “Gleb Savinov.” N. Leonova, Leningrad, 1988.
- “Gleb Savinov.” N. Leonova, Turin, 1984.
- “The Visual Arts of Leningrad.” Artist RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic), Leningrad, 1981.
- “Unknown Socialist Realism: The Leningrad School.” NP Print Edition, St. Petersburg, 2007.
Art:
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- A Family (sold)
- Bathers (sold)
- From my Childhood. The Banks of the Volga
- In Summer (sold)
- Peonies
- Portrait (sold)