Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Ph. D., associate Professor.
Kaplyanskii Boris Yevseyevich was born in 1903 in Moscow.
In 1910 he moved to St. Petersburg. Seventeen years he entered the Petrograd state free art educational workshops (Svomas which he graduated in 1924 (at that time they were called Higher art and technical studios, or VKhUTEMAS abbreviated in Leningrad) in the sculpture class of Professor A. T. Matveev.
Since 1929 he participated in all-Union, Republican and Leningrad art exhibitions.
During the great Patriotic war (1942-1945) was in the Soviet Army.
He defended his thesis on "Sculptural portrait" (1945).
In 1946 he received the title of associate Professor.
Taught at the art schools of Leningrad for more than fifteen years.
Kaplyanskii, B. E. — member of the Leningrad branch of Union of artists of Russian Federation since its founding. He was a member of the Board of the Leningrad Union of artists, was a member of Bureau section of sculpture, participated in the vystavkomov and artistic advice.
Many of the works of B. E. Kaplenkova are in the State Tretyakov gallery, the State Russian Museum. The state Museum of history of Leningrad, the State Museum of urban sculpture and in other collections.
Aside from his sculptures Kaplyanskii, B. E. works a lot in the field of monumental-decorative laminates, takes part in the sculptural decoration of a number of complexes and buildings in Moscow, Leningrad, Dushanbe and Sochi.
Source: Tamara G. Kaplansky, Boris Evseevich Kaplyanskii. Catalogue of the exhibition. Soviet artist, Moscow, 1982
