Bidspirit auction | Turzhansky L.V.

Turzhansky L.V. - Autumn. Forest edge.. Year:  1930s Technique:  Oil on cardboard. Size:  25x32. Expertize:  Certificate by the Grabar Art Conservation Centre. Turzhansky Leonard Viktorovich (1875, Yekaterinburg - 1945, Moscow). Russian and Soviet artist. He received his initial art education in the first half of the 1890s, taking private lessons from N. M. Plyusnin. He studied at the Central College of Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg (1895), at the Stroganov Art and Industrial College (1896-1897) and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1898-1909), where his teachers were A.M. Stepanov, V. A. Serov and K. A. Korovin; in 1907 he graduated from the college with the rank of non-class (free) the artist. He participated in exhibitions of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, since 1910 he was a member of the Union of Russian Artists, regularly exhibited works at its exhibitions since 1904. Russian Russian art exhibitions in New York and the First Russian Art Exhibition at the Van Diemen's Gallery in Berlin were presented in 1924-1925. In 1927, he became one of the founders of the Society of Realist Artists. In 1937 and 1941, Turzhansky's solo exhibitions were held in Moscow; posthumously, a memorial exhibition was held in Sverdlovsk (1946). L. V. Turzhansky's works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, as well as in museums in Yekaterinburg, Minsk, Kiev, Yaroslavl and other cities.