Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
11 Facts About Boris Lavrenko
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Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was born on 6 May 1920 in the city of Rostov on Don, Soviet Russia.
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In 1952, Boris Lavrenko graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of painting in Rudolf Frentz workshop, together with Sergei Babkov, Leonid Baykov, Irina Baldina, Dmitry Beliaev, Abram Grushko, Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Oleg Lomakin, Piotr Fomin, Vladimir Chekalov, and other young artists.
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Boris Lavrenko's graduated work was genre painting named "At the collective farm Stadium".
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Boris Lavrenko painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, still lifes, sketches from the life.
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Boris Lavrenko's works were exhibited in 1972 in Moscow, Leningrad, and Rostov on Don, to great acclaim.
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Boris Lavrenko's style distinguish a broad painting, energetic brushstroke, artistic transfer of tonal relations and states of lighting and air, palpable materiality of volumes and forms.
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Since 1953, Boris Lavrenko was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
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Boris Lavrenko was Doctor of art-criticism, professor of painting, a head of personal workshop and graphical department of the Repin Institute of Arts.
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In 1976 Boris Lavrenko was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko died on 7 June 2001 in Saint Petersburg at the eighty-first year of life.