1. Yuri Mikhailovich Neprintsev was a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, and a member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
20 Facts About Yuri Neprintsev
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Yuri Neprintsev's father, Mikhail Nikolayevich Neprintsev was an architect, a Honored Art Worker of Science and Technology of the Georgian SSR.
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In 1926, Neprintsev went to Leningrad to continue his education.
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In 1929, Yuri Neprintsev began to work as designer and graphic artist in the palace-museums of Leningrad and the Pushkin town.
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In 1934, Yuri Neprintsev entered at the third course of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Yuri Neprintsev studied of Pavel Naumov, Alexander Lubimov, and Isaak Brodsky, who 30 years ago was a student of Vasily Savinsky.
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In 1938, Yuri Neprintsev graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
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Yuri Neprintsev's graduation work was a painting "Alexander Pushkin in Mikhailovskoe village", devoted to the memory of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
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In 1940 Yuri Neprintsev was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists.
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Yuri Neprintsev painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, and landscapes.
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Yuri Neprintsev worked in oil painting, pencil drawings, watercolors and book illustration.
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Solo exhibitions by Yuri Neprintsev were in 1959, and in 1989.
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Yuri Neprintsev fought in the Second World War, serving in the Baltic Fleet and being demobilized in 1946.
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The outstanding work of art by Yuri Neprintsev was painting "The Rest After Battle".
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Yuri Neprintsev taught in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin since 1938.
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Yuri Neprintsev was professor of painting, a head of personal workshop and graphical department of Repin Institute of Arts.
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In 1953, Yuri Neprintsev was elected Corresponding Member of Academy of Arts of the USSR, and in 1970 he was elected member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
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Yuri Neprintsev was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1938.
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Yuri Neprintsev died in Saint Petersburg at the age of 87.
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Yuri Neprintsev's paintings are in State Russian Museum, State Treryakov Gallery, in the numerous Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, USA, China, Ukraine, Italy, Japan, and other countries.