Olga Bogaevskaya
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Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya was a Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of painting
Leningrad School of Painting
The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

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Biography

Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya was born October 25, 1915, in Petrograd in the family of scientist, archaeologist, and art historian. She studied at the Art and Industry College where she was a student of Dmitry Zagoskin (1931–1932). Then continued education in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where she was a student of Sergei Priselkov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, David Bernshtein, and Alexander Osmerkin (1933–1940). In 1940 Olga Bogaevskaya graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Alexander Osmerkin
Alexander Osmerkin
Alexander Alexandrovich Osmerkin was a Russian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, and art teacher. He was a member of the Knave of Diamonds avant-garde group, AKhRR, and Society of Moscow Artists groups...

 workshop with the rank of artist of painting. His degree work was a painting titled "Meting of girlfriend".

In 1940 Olga Bogaevskaya married a fellow student at the institute artist Gleb Savinov
Gleb Savinov
Gleb Alexandrovich Savinov - Soviet, Russian painter, Art teacher, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting.- Biography :Gleb...

. In 1940-1941, she taught painting at the Secondary Art School at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Olga Bogaevskaya was a regular participant of exhibitions of Leningrad artists since the late 1940s. She was a talented colorist. The leading theme of her work - child portrait, still life in the interior and exterior. Since 1940 Bogaevskaya was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Works of 1950-1960's nominated her of the leading painters of Leningrad.

Among the most famous works of Olga Bogaevskaya are paintings "The Breakfast", "Cadets" (both 1947), "Peaceful sleep" (1951), "Still Life with Strawberries", "Girls", "Flowers. Still life" (all 1956), "In the garden", "Girl with Dolls" (both 1957), "Guests", "Apples" (both 1960), "Wedding" (1967), "Still Life with Tray", "Roses" (both 1972), "Katia with the Doll", "Still life with a Bird" (both 1976), "Children's Holiday" (1980), "A Spring" (1990).

Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya died on 30 November 2000 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-sixth year of life. Her paintings reside in State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, in museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, Britain, France, in the U.S., Japan, and other countries.

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