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Borisovich Smirnov

Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. Professor. Author of books on methods of teaching fine art was Born in 1908 in Kiev. Studied in 1926-1930 in VKhUTEMAS (Vhuteine) in AA Osmerkin, I. Mashkov, BV Smirnov, in 1924-1929 — in the Studio of D. N. Kardovsky. Participant of art exhibitions since 1934. Major works: "Semidesertic" (1936, Donetsk art Museum), "the Top is taken" (1937, Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR), "Volkhov River" (1940, Dnepropetrovsk art Museum), images of 30-50-ies (TG), a series of landscapes by Turgenev and Lermontov places (1955-1960, Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad), "Portraits of younger contemporaries" (1960-1970, Tula regional art Museum), a series of landscapes by Nekrasov places (1974, Museum-estate of N. A. Nekrasov "Karabikha", Yaroslavl region), "Urban landscapes" (1977-1978, Bryansk regional Museum of Soviet art). Official website gbsmirnov.ru