Sergey Mikhailovich Skubko (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Скубко; 1922–2007) was a Soviet painter. He lived and worked in Moscow (since 1945) and is a representative of the Moscow school of paintings.

Sergey Michailovich Skubko
Born	(1922-11-06)November 6, 1922 Stashevka, Primorsky Krai, Russia/USSR
Died	January 21, 2007(2007-01-21) (aged 84) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Education	V. Surikov Moscow state artistic institute
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Early life

Sergey Skubko born in 1922 in Stachevka, a Cossack settlement in the Russian Far Eastern Primorsky Krai (near the Chinese border). Died in Moscow in 2007. His family was stripped of property during collectivization and moved to Vladivostok in 1930. Skubko received American lend-lease aid in the port of Vladivostok during the Second World War. Arrived in Moscow from Vladivostok in 1945 to seek higher education. He graduated from V. Surikov Moscow State Artistic Institute in 1951.

He married Lyudmila Skubko-Karpas in 1948. They raised two sons, Yury (1953) and Alexey (1958).

Career

His first exhibition was in 1952. He became a member of the Moscow Painters Union in 1954. He worked as a painter for more than half a century, creating realist traditions of the Moscow painters school in all genres - portrait, landscapes, and still life. In the 1950s and 1960s he created historic pictures and portraits of political personalities, scientists, travelers, peasants. In the 1970s and 1980s, he travelled Central Asia painting landscapes of the Pamir mountains and other places. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked in the ancient city of Suzdal. He continued to create landscapes of Russian nature in the Moscow family dacha of Sokolova Pustyn village on the banks of the Oka river. His paintings reside in museums, art galleries and private collections in Russia and abroad.

Gallery

• 
  Lenin on the way to Petrograd in 1917. 1954
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  Winter in Suzdal. 1981
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  Oka River. 1995
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  Early spring in mountains. 1981
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  Student from Rio Negro, Brazil. 1963

References

• Moscow painters Lyudmila Skubko-Karpas and Sergey Skubko. Paintings/graphic art (Московские художники Людмила Скубко-Карпас и Сергей Скубко. Живопись.графика). Documentary film. Moscow 2013.ISBN 978-5-9903389-2-0
• Lyudmila Skubko-Karpas. Drawings of a master (Людмила Скубко-Карпас.Рисунки мастера). Moscow.2015. ISBN 978-5-9903389-3-7
• From the art heritage of Moscow painters Sergey Skubko and Lyudmila Skubko-Karpas (Из творческого наследия московских художников Сергея Скубко и Людмилы Скубко-Карпас) Moscow 2016. ISBN 978-5-9903389-4-4

External links

• "Сайт семьи московских художников Скубко-Карпас". www.skubkokarpas.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-26.

На других языках

[ru] Скубко, Сергей Михайлович