Shcherbakov Boris Valentinovich
Spring
Year
1969
Material
Oil on hardboard
Dimensions
50х50
Category
Painting
Period
Soviet Period (1917–1991)
A lyrical landscape painted by Boris Shcherbakov in 1969. The work captures the awakening of nature through the artist's characteristic painting style.
Artist
Shcherbakov Boris Valentinovich
1916 — 1995
Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov was a Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 1939, he graduated from the Repin Institute of the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad (I. I. Brodsky's studio). He was an author of portraits of contemporaries and thematic landscape cycles. In 1952, he was awarded the USSR State Prize for his participation in the creation of the painting "Meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences" and other works. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded several USSR medals.