Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov (; 16 November 1912 – 12 June 1993) was a Soviet, Russian painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Biography

Koroviakov was born on 16 November 1912 in Berdskaya, near

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, Orenburg Province,

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. In 1932 Alexander Koroviakov entered to the Fine Art College (

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). After graduating he comes to Leningrad and continued his study at Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin since 1937. He studied with Boris Fogel,

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, and

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. In 1941, July, Alexander Koroviakov has gone to the

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as a volunteer from the last academic year. Не took part in Volhovsky Front, in the battles for Leningrad, in the liberation of

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. Не was wounded and demobilized as a sergeant in 1945. Alexander Koroviakov was awarded by an

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, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and the

Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" The Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" () was a World War II campaign medal of the Soviet Union established on December 22, 1942 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to recognise the valour and hard work of the Soviet ...

. In September 1945 Alexander Koroviakov resumed his study in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin and graduated from

Rudolf Frentz Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz (; 23 July 1888 – 27 December 1956) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists a ...

workshop in 1947. His degree work was a ''"Wounded Commander"''. In 1947 he came back to

for teaching painting and drawing in Fine Art College. Since 1949 Alexander Koroviakov has participated in

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. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings. Most famous for his still life paintings and cityscapes of Leningrad. In the 1954 Alexander Koroviakov returned to Leningrad and start to teach painting and drawing in the famous Leningrad Secondary Art School under the Academy of Arts of the USSR, where he worked until 1983. Alexander Koroviakov was very active in the exhibition life of Leningrad. In 1956 he took part at Autumn exhibition (Leningrad, 1956) where he demonstrated the works: ''"The First Snow"'' and ''"The Palace Square"'' (both 1956). He designated his main direction of the creation: Leningrad cityscape from this moment. His basic technique was working directly from life. Among his works there were ''"Spring in Leningrad"'', ''"St. Isaak's Square''", ''"Near the Pier"'' (all 1957), ''"Kronwerk Strait"'' (1960), ''"Stadium under the name of Lenin"'', ''"Lenin Street"'', ''"Factory District"'' (all 1960), ''"At the Islands"'', ''"After the Snowfall"'', ''"Leningrad"'' (all 1962), ''"Wet Asphalt"'' (1963), ''"Winter Palace"'', ''"Near Peter and Paul Fortress"'' (both 1965), "On the Nevka River" (1964) and many others. Besides the Leningrad motifs Alexander Koroviakov also worked on tradition landscape. He preferred intimate subjects: a corner of autumn garden or snow-covered yard, sparkling of light spots on the water. For example, in the works ''"Autumn Garden"'' (1965) and ''"At the Seliger Lake"'' (1965). In 1960-1980 Alexander Koroviakov was keen by theme of Still life. His compositions were original, complicated by their technique and had associative content. Like in ''"Autumn Still life"'' (1972), ''"Dog Rose"'' (1969), ''"Still life with Cabbage"'' (1972),''"Bouquet"'' (1979). Alexander Koroviakov experimented a lot on painting technique, he tended to effects of capacity, semitransparency and polycoating of image. In 1989 -1992 his works were presented at auctions and exhibitions of Russian paintings at France with great successes. Alexander Koroviakov was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists since 1955. Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov died on 12 June 1993 in Saint Petersburg in the eighty-first year of life. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, in the U.S., China, France,''Peinture Russe. Catalogue.'' – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 18 Fevrier 1991. p.7,23–24. and throughout the world.

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