1. Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov was born January 23,1911, in the village of Maksimkovo, Polotsk Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire in the family of the master-builder of railway bridges.
13 Facts About Arseny Semionov
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Arseny Semionov's father died when Arseny was four years old.
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In 1930, Arseny Semionov took preparatory courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and in the same year he became a student of the Institute of Proletarian Fine Art.
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In 1937, shortly before graduation Institute in studio of Dmitry Kardovsky, Arseny Semenov became ill and was forced to stop training.
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In 1938 Arseny Semionov accepted membership in the Penza Organization of Soviet Artists.
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From 1939 to 1944 Arseny Semionov was in the Red Army's armored forces.
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From 1944 to 1947 Arseny Semionov taught at the High School of Arts at the Surikov Arts Institute in Moscow.
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In 1946 Arseny Semionov take in members of the Moscow organization of Soviet artists, he started to have participation in Moscow exhibitions.
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In September 1947 Arseny Semionov returned to Leningrad and received a lecturer at the faculty of general painting of the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Arts named after Vera Mukhina, where he worked for over forty years, nurtured several generations of artists.
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Since the late 1940s Arseny Semionov participates in Exhibitions of Leningrad artists.
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In 1966 in Leningrad has been shown exhibition of works by Arseny Semionov, dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the artist and 20 years of his teaching work at the Department of Painting of the Vera Mukhina Institute.
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Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov died on 13, September, 1992, in St Petersburg at the eighty-second year of life.
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In 2006 in Saint Petersburg in the Anna Akhmatova Museum hosted an exhibition of works by Arseny Semionov, timed to the publication of the monograph devoted to the life and art of artist.