10 Facts About Dmitry Maevsky

Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes.

Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky was born on 17 May 1917 in city Petrograd, Russian Empire.

Passion for drawing led him to the studio of the artist Shvedov, where Dmitry Maevsky got his first experience of drawing and painting.

In 1933 Dmitry Maevsky came to Leningrad to continue his education.

In 1935 Dmitry Maevsky passed the entrance exams at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but was not enrolled because of lack of vacancies due to the reorganization of the institute.

Dmitry Maevsky took part in the Winter War, and in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies.

In 1955 Dmitry Maevsky was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

Since the mid-1960s, Dmitry Maevsky lived and worked in the village of Podol, Tver Province, near the Academic Dacha, where he created most of the works of this period.

Dmitry Maevsky's painting acquired greater generality, the drawing became more laconic.

Dmitry Maevsky died on 23 July 1992 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 75.