1. Nina Leonidovna Veselova was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, Doctor of art-criticism, who lived and worked in Leningrad.
11 Facts About Nina Veselova
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Nina Veselova was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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From 1934 to 1941 Nina Veselova studied at the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Fine Arts, where she was student of Vladimir Gorb, Piotr Kazakov, Leonid Sholokhov, and Alexander Zaitsev.
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In 1941, after graduating, Nina Veselova entered at the Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Nina Veselova worked at the plant, an educator of kindergarten, in the lumber camps on the outskirts of Leningrad.
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In 1944, after the liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's blockade and the return the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from evacuation, Nina Veselova resumed classes at the faculty of painting.
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Nina Veselova studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev.
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In 1950 Veselova graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Boris Ioganson studio, together with Evgenia Antipova, Anatoli Vasiliev, Vecheslav Zagonek, Tatiana Kopnina, Nikolai Mukho, Alexander Pushnin, Alexander Sokolov, Yuri Tulin, and other young artists.
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Nina Veselova painted portraits, genre paintings, landscapes and still lifes.
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Nina Veselova's style is distinguished soft plastic, restrained decorative color, and exquisite tonal relationships.
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Nina Veselova was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1950.