OVSYANNIKOV Leonid Fedorovich

25 мая 1880 (village Yurino, Nizhny Novgorod province) — 30 марта 1970 (Leningrad)

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From a family of teachers in rural schools. He studied at the Kazan art school (graduated in 1900), the Higher art school of painting, sculpture and architecture under the Imperial Academy of arts (1901-1909), in the class of engravings from В. В. Матэ. In 1910 — pensioner of the Imperial Academy of arts in Europe.

Lived in St.-Петербурге (Petrograd — Leningrad). Mainly engaged in easel graphics; worked in the techniques of color etching, lithography, linocut. By order of the Imperial Academy of arts reproduced in etching technique picture И. Е. Репина "Zaporozhtsy writing letter to Turkish Sultan" (1917). The author of numerous portraits (В. В. Матэ, В. И. Ленина, М. И. Калинина, С. М. Кирова, И. Д. Папанина), landscapes of Leningrad and its environs, Samarkand, genre compositions.

a Member of a "Community of artists" (from 1910, in exhibitions did not participate), society of artists to them. А. И. Куинджи (1918, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930). Participated in exhibitions: 2-я State of painting, sculpture and architecture in Kazan (1921), "Engraving the USSR for 10 лет" (1927), "Colour xylography. Her techniques and possibilities" (1929) in Moscow, "Graphic art in the USSR. 1917-1928 годы", jubilee exhibition of fine arts (both — 1927), "Modern Leningrad artistic groups" (1928/1929) in Leningrad and others. Member LOSS. His personal exhibitions were held in Leningrad (1941, 1945).

he Taught at the Kiev architectural Institute (1918-1922), Leningrad art-промышленном College (from 1926, the head of the lithographic workshop), Leningrad Institute of engineers of civil air fleet (up to 1937), the Leningrad Institute of painting, architecture and sculpture — Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after. И. Е. Репина (1938-1960;, associate Professor of art (1938), Professor of the Department of drawing (1942)), as well as in secondary schools of Leningrad (1930-е).

the author of the memories of И. Е. Репине (collection "Artists of Leningrad". L., 1959), textbooks "Engraving on cardboard" (1952), "study of the technique of etching with respect to the first and second courses of art" (1953); articles in periodicals "On value sketches", "drawings". In 1941 the Russian Academy of arts was issued a small monograph on the artist (Artist-гравер Leonid F. Ovsyannikov. Auth. will take. article П. Е. Корнилов. L., 1941).