Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings.
10 Facts About Elena Kostenko
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Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was born on 9 August 1926 in Leningrad.
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Elena Kostenko's father, Mikhail Kostenko, was an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, one of the major organizers of Soviet science.
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In 1938, Elena Kostenko entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which is trained with a break until 1946.
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Elena Kostenko's teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb.
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In 1946, after graduating from Secondary Art School Elena Kostenko enters the first year of painting faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin.
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Elena Kostenko studied of Semion Abugov, Yuri Neprintsev, Mikhail Platunov, Andrei Mylnikov.
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In 1952 Elena Kostenko graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Viktor Oreshnikov personal Art Studio, together with Irina Baldina, Boris Lavrenko, Vladimir Chekalov, Boris Korneev, Abram Grushko, Oleg Lomakin, Alexei Eriomin, Marina Kozlovskaya, and well-known other artists.
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Since 1952, Elena Kostenko begins to participate in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists.
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Elena Kostenko was a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1953.