Igor Petrovich Veselkin (; 8 March 1915 – 1997) was a

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, and art teacher, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was a member of the

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Biography

Veselkin Igor Petrovich was born on 8 March 1915 in the town of Ranenburg, Ryazan Governorate. In 1930 Igor Veselkin entered the Ryazan Art College, from which he graduated in 1934. In 1936 he moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied under noted educators Alexander Debler,

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, Alexander Segal, and Mikhail Platunov. In 1947 Veselkin graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Mikhail Bobishov workshop. His graduated work was design of the play "The Kremlin chimes" (by the same name play of Nikolai Pogodin), award-winning Art Fund of the USSR. After graduating in the 1947–1951 years, Igor Veselkin had continued his postgraduate studies in the Repin Institute of Arts. In 1951 he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of art-criticism. Beginning in 1947, Igor Veselkin worked as a theatre decorator in Leningrad and Moscow theaters for the following plays: "We are on the ground", (

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and George Makogonenko, Leningrad BDT Theatre named after

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, 1948), "Ilya Golovin" (

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named after Maxim Gorky, 1949), "Philistines" (

, 1950), "

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" (

, 1951), "Native Fields" ( Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Sergei Kirov, 1953). From 1946, Igor Veselkin participated in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings, sketches of theatre costumes and set-scenes for Moscow and Leningrad theatres. In 1947 Igor Veselkin was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (since 1992 known as the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists). In 1951, Igor Veselkin began teaching painting and drawing, first in the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts in Moscow, then in Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina in Leningrad, and in the Repin Institute of Arts., where he was professor of painting after 1989. Veselkin Igor Petrovich died in Saint Petersburg in 1997. Paintings by Igor Veselkin reside in State Russian Museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia, Germany, France,''Charmes Russes. Auction Catalogue.'' — Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 15 Mai 1991. — p. 19-20. and throughout the world.

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* ''Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biography and Bibliography Dictionary. Vol. 2''. - Moscow: Iskusstvo Edition, 1972. - p. 248. * ''Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.'' - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p. 24. * ''Charmes Russes. Auction Catalogue.'' — Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 15 Mai 1991. — p. 19-20. * ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 18, 26, 29, 52, 230, 257, 261, 358, 388, 390-400, 402-405, 413, 415, 416, 418-422. , . * ''Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005''. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.- p. 57. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Veselkin, Igor 1915 births 1997 deaths People from Chaplygin People from Ranenburgsky Uyezd 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Soviet painters Leningrad School artists Socialist realist artists Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists 20th-century Russian male artists Repin Institute of Arts alumni

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