1. Elena Skuin lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
12 Facts About Elena Skuin
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Elena Skuin is regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of paintingand is most famous for her still life paintings.
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Elena Petrovna Skuin was born on 2 April 1908 in Ekaterinodar, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire, in a teacher's family, who arrived in the Kuban from Riga.
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In 1931, Elena Skuin comes to Leningrad, worked as an artist at the Stalin Metalworks, then studied at the Institute for Advanced education of Art workers.
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In 1936, Elena Skuin entered at the third course of the Painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Elena Skuin studied with Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Rudolf Frentz.
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Elena Skuin's graduate work was a painting named "Lesson of the circle, studying the Naval Science".
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In October 1939, Elena Skuin was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, receiving a membership card number 285.
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Elena Skuin began her teaching job, first in the Secondary Art School at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, then at the Department of General Painting in Vera Mukhina Institute.
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Elena Skuin painted genre paintings, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
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In 1951 Elena Skuin leave teaching and move to work under contracts with LenIzo as an artist of painting.
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In 1960s Elena Skuin made some creative journeys in search of material for paintings, including her native Kuban land.