1. Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad.
11 Facts About Maria Rudnitskaya
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Maria Rudnitskaya was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was born June 17,1916, in the city of Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire, in family of railway engineers.
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In 1935, Maria Rudnitskaya entered the Tavricheskaya Art School, where she studied with A Gromov, S Bootler, V Levitsky, V Oreshnikov, and M Aslamazian.
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In 1949, after a long break due to World War II, Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture after Ilya Repin in the studio of Victor Oreshnikov, together with Nikolai Babasuk, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov, Victor Teterin, and other young artists.
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Maria Rudnitskaya's graduation work was a genre painting named "Motherhood".
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Maria Rudnitskaya painted portraits, landscapes, still lives, genre paintings, and sketches done from nature.
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Maria Rudnitskaya has successfully worked in the genre of children's portraits.
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Maria Rudnitskaya's portraits consist of inherent characteristics of precision, delicacy of tonal colouring, which matches her plein-air style.
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Maria Rudnitskaya was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1949.
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Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya died on January 1,1983, in Leningrad at the sixty-seventh year of life.