1. Alexander Tikhonovich Pushnin was a Soviet, Russian painter, Doctor of Art-criticism, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait and historical painting.
Alexander Pushnin was born March 28,1921, in the city Morshansk, Tambov Province, Soviet Russia.
In 1943, Pushnin entered the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Alexander Pushnin studied of Ivan Stepashkin, Mikhail Avilov, Yuri Neprintsev, Aleksandr Gerasimov.
In 1950, Alexander Pushnin graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Rudolf Frentz personal Art Studio.
Alexander Pushnin's graduation work was a historical painting named "Vladimir Lenin in Kazan University", dedicated to Lenin's participation in student demonstrations.
Alexander Pushnin painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, landscapes, worked in drawing and watercolors.
Alexander Pushnin's style featured a powerful pictorial language, a broad style of painting, sharp composition, interest in the unusual angles.
Since 1950, Alexander Pushnin was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
Alexander Pushnin was Doctor of Art-criticism and Professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin.
Alexander Pushnin died on September 5,1991, in Leningrad at the seventy-first year of life.