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

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. He was a member of the

Leningrad Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg () was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called ":ru:Ленинградский Союз художников, Leningrad Union of ...

and one of the founders of the

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, most famous for his battle and monumental painting.

Biography

Frentz was born on 23 July 1888 in Marienburg, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, in the

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of the

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. Initially he learned from his father Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz (1831–1918), Academic of painting (1912), well-known Russian master of animal and hunting paintings. In 1918 Rudolf Frentz graduated from Higher Art School at the

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, where he studied noted battle painters Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokysh. Since 1904 Rudolf Frentz participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes, the most famous being his battle and animal paintings. Among his most famous paintings were ″''On Znamenskaya Square in the February days of 1917''″ (1917), ″''Kryukov Channel''″ (1920), ″''Still Life''″, ″''Roadhog''″ (both 1921), ″''Carousel''″ (1922), ″''Nevsky Prospekt in the Night. A Cabman''″, ″''A Folk festivitie''″ (both 1923), ″''The storming of the Winter Palace''″, ″'' Horsewoman''″ (both 1925), ″''A Portrait of wife''″ (1926), ″''The defense of Petrograd from Yudenich''″ (1928), ″''Sergey Kirov at the May Day Parade''″, ″''A Workers of the Southern Urals join a Blucher's partisan detachment''″ (1929), ″''Storm of Kronstadt''″ (1935), ″''Sergey Kirov in the North Caucasus''″, ″''Joint actions of tanks, aircraft and cavalry. Combined attack''″ (both 1937), ″''Mikhail Frunze manages the crossing over Sivash''″ (1940), ″''Guerrilla paths''″ (1947), ''Stalingrad. February 2, 1943'' (1950). Rudolf Frentz was a founding member of the

established in 1932. From 1929 to 1956, he taught at the Repin Institute of Arts, where he was professor of painting (1939–1956) and the head of the battle-painting workshop (from 1934). From 1949 to 1956, he also was professor of painting at the

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, also known as the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art. Among his pupils were well-known Russian painters

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, Vladislav Anisovich,

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, Yuri Belov,

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, Sergei Babkov,

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, Konstantin Molteninov,

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, Vladimir Ovchinnikov,

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, Vladimir Seleznev, Piotr Litvinsky,

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and

Elena Skuin Elena Petrovna Skuin (, ; 2 April 1908 – 12 February 1986) was a Soviet, Russian–Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher. She lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. She is reg ...

. Exhibitions of his works have been held in Leningrad (1928, 1970) and Saint Petersburg (2006). Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz died in Leningrad on 27 December 1956. His paintings are held in the

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, the

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, and in art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, the US, Germany, England, and elsewhere.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. Р.6—7.

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