1. Taisia Kirillovna Afonina was a Soviet painter and watercolorist.
11 Facts About Taisia Afonina
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Taisia Afonina lived and worked in Leningrad, was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, and is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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In 1931 Taisia Afonina graduated from nine-year school in city Taganrog and came to Leningrad to obtain an art education.
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In 1936, after preparatory classes, Taisia Afonina was adopted at the first course of Painting Department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Victor Oreshnikov, Pavel Naumov.
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In 1943, after the liberation of the German fascists Lugansk, Taisia Afonina was involved in rebuilding the city, teaching drawing and painting in Lugansk Art school.
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In 1946, Taisia Afonina graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Igor Grabar personal Art Studio of monumental painting.
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Taisia Afonina's graduate work was a historical painting named "Girls of Donbas", dedicated to the memory and heroism members of the Anti-Fascist underground.
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Taisia Afonina's paintings were later purchased by the art museums of Leningrad, Kostroma, Krasnodon, Staraya Ladoga, and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
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Taisia Afonina worked in oil painting and watercolors and was most famous as a master of landscape and still-life painting.
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In 1946 Taisia Afonina was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.
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Taisia Kirillovna Afonina died on 19 April 1994 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 80.