Abram Borisovich Grushko (Russian: Абра́м Бори́сович Грушко́; 6 June 1918 – 15 March 1980) was a Soviet painter and art teacher that lived and worked in Leningrad, was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation,[1] and was regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.[2] He was most famous for his many landscape paintings.

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Abram Borisovich Grushko
Born	(1918-06-06)6 June 1918 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	15 March 1980(1980-03-15) (aged 61) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Art teaching
Movement	Realism

Biography

Abram Borisovich Grushko was born June 6th 1918, in Moscow, Soviet Russia. In 1952, Grushko graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute in the Boris Ioganson workshop.[3] He studied of Boris Fogel, Semion Abugov, Lia Ostrova, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Joseph Serebriany. Since 1956, Grushko has participated in Art Exhibitions, has painted portraits, landscapes, and genre compositions as his solo exhibitions were in Leningrad in 1990.

The main theme of Abram Grushko's artwork became nature and the people of Zaonezhye (Onega Lake region, Karelia), leading genres – landscape and sketch from life. Traditional plain air painting in 1960 was replaced by decorative graphics solutions, similar of "severe style" with clarity of the silhouette, saturated colors, or a generalized drawing. Coloring restrained, with a predominance of dark-brown, ocher, and blue tones.

Since 1961, Abram Grushko was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.[4] In years of 1965 – 1980, Abram Grushko worked as an Art Teacher in Vera Mukhina Institute of Art and Designe. Abram Borisovich Grushko died on 15 March 1980, in Leningrad at the age of 61. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[5] Israel, Germany, USA, England, Japan, France,[6] and other countries around the world.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of Russian artists
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• List of the Russian Landscape painters
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

References

Bibliography

• The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. – p. 17.
• Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. - p. 15.
• L' École de Leningrad. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 12 Mars 1990. – p. 22-23.
• L' École de Leningrad. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 11 Juin 1990. – p. 44-45.
• Peinture Russe. Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 18 Fevrier, 1991. – p. 7,47–48.
• Saint-Pétersbourg – Pont-Audemer. Dessins, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siècle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint-Pétersbourg. – Pont-Audemer: 1994. – p. 101.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. – London: Izomar 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p. 15, 360, 389, 390, 392–394, 396, 399, 400, 403–406, 445. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.- p. 67. ISBN 978-5-903677-01-6.

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[ru] Грушко, Абрам Борисович