Victor Kuzmich Teterin (; 25 October 1922 – 1 October 1991) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in

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. He is regarded as one of the important representatives of the

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Biography

Teterin was born on 25 October 1922 in Bakharevo village, Tver Province. Since 1930, together with his parents, he lived in Leningrad. His father worked in ship repair shops, a mother was a dressmaker, she engaged in the upbringing of children and housekeeping. In 1937–1940 Teterin was engaged in the famous art studio at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers, where he studied with the famous artist and teacher, a disciple of

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, Alfred Eberling. In 1940 he entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under All-Russian Academy of Arts, where he studied of Pavel Naumov,

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, and

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. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he remained in Leningrad. In February 1942, together with the Secondary Art School and the Academy of Arts, he was evacuated from blockade Leningrad to Samarkand. In 1944 Victor Teterin entered at the first course of Department of Painting at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he studied of

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. In 1949 he graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Avilov workshop, together with

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, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov,

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, and other young artists. His graduation work was historical painting "

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at exile in

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". Since 1949 Teterin has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, genre compositions, worked in oils, tempera, and watercolors. In 1949—1956 he taught painting and drawings at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina. Among his best known paintings of the 1950s there were "''At the Kazan Cathedral''" (1949), "''Harvesting''", "''A Winter in Pavlovsk''" (both 1950), "''A Portrait of Wife in Yellow Dress''", "''Still Life''", "''Landscape in Gurzuf''" (all 1953), "''Portrait of a Mother behind a Sewing Machine''", "''Sredny Prospekt of the Vasilievsky Island''", "''Portrait of a Man''" (all 1954), "''Still Life''" (1955), "''Peaches and Pears''" (1956), "''In front of May''", "''Autumn Bouquet''" (both 1957), "''Quince and Grapes''", "''Apple Tree Branch''", "''A Working Lad''" (all 1958), "''In Sunny Day''", "''Road Builders''" (both 1959), and others. In according to art critics, the peak of Teterin's creative work falls on the 1960–1970. Among his well-known paintings of this period were "''My Parents''", "'' Quince and Teapot''", "''The End of the Summer''", "''Southern Still Life''", "''Olive Grove''", "''House with Balconies''" (all 1966), "''Still Life with Rose''", "''A Spring. View of the Smolenka River''" (both 1968), "''Olives''", "''Sredne Podyacheskaya Street''" (both 1969), "''Red Poppies''", "''Pears and Pomegranates''" (both 1975), "''Still life with a Dog Rose''" (1977), "''Blue Balcony''", "''Callas''" (both 1978), "''A Girl in a Lilac Dress''", "''A Girl on the windowsill''", "''Peonies''" (all 1979), and others. Among his last paintings were "''Naked''" (1981), "''Toilet''" (1982), "''Apples, a Bottle and a Basket''" (1983), "''Still life with a Spanish Jug''" (1985), "''Sea shore in Gurzuf''", "''Table Tennis''" (both 1985), and others. His solo exhibitions were in Leningrad in 1966, 1988, and in Saint Petersburg in 1999. In 1960–1970 Teterin become one of leader of the "left wing" of the

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, which member he was since 1953. In 1972 together with his wife

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he take part in the famous Exhibition of the eleven artists. Victor Kuzmich Teterin died in Leningrad in 1991. His paintings reside in

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, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, in the US, England, Japan, and other countries.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. pp.6–7.

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''Artist Victor Teterin (1922-1991). Painting. The Leningrad School (VIDEO)''

''Exhibition of Victor Teterin in ARKA Fine Art Gallery''
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