13 Facts About Piotr Alberti

Piotr Filipovich Alberti was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

In 1932 Piotr Alberti graduated from Astrakhan Art School and left to Leningrad where he entered the preparatory course at the Russian Academy for Fine Arts.

In 1935 Piotr Alberti was admitted to the Painting Department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied until 1936, then left the studies and joined the LenIZO Association of Artists.

In 1945, after demobilization, Piotr Alberti returned to work in LenIZO.

Since 1951 Piotr Alberti was a permanent exhibitor of the Leningrad Art exhibitions, where he showed his work among with works by the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad.

In 1957, Piotr Alberti was admitted to the Union of Leningrad artists.

Piotr Alberti's painting style was distinguished by a broad painting, vivid colors, energetic separate swab.

Piotr Alberti often uses impasto style of blending paints and intricate texture of canvas.

Piotr Alberti attached great importance to the painting from the life.

Later Piotr Alberti often turned to genre composition and landscape painting.

Since the late 1970s, Piotr Alberti was particularly keen on working in the genre of still life.

Piotr Alberti made a varied sets, but most often it was his favorite peonies, juicy watermelon, an easel with brushes and paints.

Piotr Alberti died on October 7,1994, in Saint Petersburg in the eighty-first year of life.