10 Facts About Vladimir Chekalov

Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov was a Russian Soviet realist painter and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad.

Vladimir Chekalov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his battle and genre paintings.

Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov was born July 6,1922, in the village of Novaya-Vyaltsevo, Sologalich county of Kostroma Province in the Soviet Russia.

In 1936, Vladimir Chekalov, who has shown the ability to draw, goes to the Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts.

In 1941, Vladimir Chekalov graduated from the Secondary Art School.

In July 1941, Vladimir Chekalov was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Great Patriotic War, which led the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies.

In 1952, Vladimir Chekalov graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of painting in Rudolf Frentz workshop, together with Sergei Babkov, Leonid Baykov, Irina Baldina, Dmitry Beliaev, Abram Grushko, Marina Kozlovskaya, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Oleg Lomakin, Piotr Fomin, Boris Lavrenko, and other young artists.

Vladimir Chekalov's graduated work was genre painting named "Soldier kitchen", devoted the first days of a new life in the liberation from Nazi German town.

Vladimir Chekalov participated in art exhibitions since 1952, mainly as a master of battle paintings and genre compositions.

Since 1953, Vladimir Chekalov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.