Leningrad School of Painting

The Museum of the Academy of Arts and Repin Institute
View of the Academy of Arts building
Established1765 (1765)
Location17, University Embankment, Saint Petersburg, Russia
DirectorSemion Mikhaylovsky
Websitewww.artsacademy.ru

The Leningrad School of Painting (Russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1932–1991).

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