Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
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Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (Russian: Анна Петровна Остроумова-Лебедева, 17 May 1871 — 5 May 1955) was a Russian and Soviet artist and painter most notable for her watercolor painting. She was also one of the pioneers of the woodcut technique in Russia.[1] She was one of the members of the art association ‘The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924-1931.
Biography
[edit]She was born as Anna Ostroumova in Saint Petersburg. In 1905, she married the chemist Sergey Lebedev.[1]
She studied painting at the Stieglitz School of Technical Drawing, and subsequently at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Ilya Repin. The academy only started to accept women in 1892, and Ostroumova was one of the first women alumni. In 1898 and 1899 she studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi, and also with James McNeill Whistler at the Académie Carmen.[2] In 1900, Ostroumova graduated from the academy, specializing on graphics, and at the same year joined the Mir iskusstva art group in Saint Petersburg.[1] In 1901, she produced the first series of woodcuts with Saint Petersburg cityscapes, ordered by Sergei Diaghilev.[2]
In the 1900s—1910s she extensively travelled around Europe and also worked as a book illustrator.[2]
Since 1934, she worked as a professor in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture. Ostroumova-Lebedeva survived the Siege of Leningrad,[3] but sometime after that became blind. She died in 1955 in Leningrad.[1]
The main topic of her graphic works, both woodcuts and watercolors, were cityscapes of Saint Petersburg. She was also interested in European cityscapes, resulting from her travels in Europe.[1]
Selected paintings
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"Villa Borghese", 1904 -
"Two Islands and a birch", 1908 -
"In Finland", 1910
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Остроумова-Лебедева Анна Петровна (1871-1955)" (in Russian). История графики. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ a b c "Остроумова-Лебедева Анна Петровна" (in Russian). Интернет-музей гравюры. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ Leningrad Album, csglasgow.org. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
External links
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- Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website (in Russian)
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- 1871 births
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- 20th-century Russian painters
- 20th-century Russian women painters
- Painters from Saint Petersburg
- Académie Carmen alumni
- Académie Colarossi alumni
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts
- Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
- Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design alumni
- People's Artists of the RSFSR (visual arts)
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Engravers from the Russian Empire
- Painters from the Russian Empire
- Printmakers from the Russian Empire
- Watercolorists from the Russian Empire
- Blind artists
- Blind scholars and academics
- Russian blind people
- Russian engravers
- Russian printmakers
- Russian watercolorists
- Soviet blind people
- Soviet engravers
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- Soviet women painters
- Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery
- Mir iskusstva artists