Veniamin
Alekseevich Safonov

Born in 1931 in the village of Krasna Zoria in Orel region. The place is in the history of the war called "the battle on the Orel-Kursk" the artist's Childhood - three years of occupation and the tremendous battle that took place at his village. He graduated from the Orel art College. Since the early 50-ies, lives and works in Podolsk. Improving their skills in the annual visits to Academic dacha for 40 years. So for the artist family became the core of the land of Russia - Tver and the Moscow region. Participant of the largest exhibitions of the country. Works are in several museums of Russia and Belarus, and private collections of France.

Painter. In 1951 he graduated from the Orel art College. In 1958 admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. A great influence on the work of Benjamin Safonov had Academic dacha them. Repin, where he got an award ticket after participating in the all-Union art exhibition of 1957. Since then, the landscape becomes the main theme of the works of the artist. His technique of painting was characteristic of sonorous colours, a bizarre combination of colors based on impressions. In 1988 personal exhibition of the artist was held in Moscow. His works are kept in Art Museums of Yaroslavl, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Serpukhov, in the Art Gallery of the city of Cologne (Germany).