1936 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

See also: 1936 in art

The year 1936 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.

Events

• The first graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts after its reorganization in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture under the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
• Retrospective Exhibition of works by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was opened in Moscow and in Leningrad.^[1]
• November 17 — The Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists was opened in Russian museum. The participants were Victor Oreshnikov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Samuil Nevelshtein, Nikolai Kostrov, and other important Leningrad artists.^[2]

Births

• March 7 — Tamara Polosatova (Russian: Полосатова Тамара Владимировна), Russian Soviet painter.
• March 16 — Boris Kuznetsov (Russian: Кузнецов Борис Николаевич), Russian Soviet painter.
• December 31 — Victor Korovin (Russian: Коровин Виктор Иванович), Russian Soviet painter.

Deaths

• February 23 — Sergey Chekhonin (Russian: Чехонин Сергей Васильевич), Russian Soviet graphic artist (b. 1878)

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  Sergey Chekhonin

See also

• List of Russian artists
• List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Russian culture
• 1936 in the Soviet Union