Dmitry Buchkin

Dmitry Petrovich Buchkin (Russian: Дмитрий Петрович Бучкин; 23 July 1927 – 7 December 2024) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists),^[1] who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He is also regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,^[2] being best known for his genre and landscape paintings.

Dmitry Buchkin
Дмитрий Бучкин
Born	(1927-07-23)23 July 1927 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	7 December 2024(2024-12-07) (aged 97) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Education	Vera Mukhina Institute
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Buchkin was born in Leningrad, USSR. In the 1960s and 1980s he repeatedly worked in the Staraya Ladoga House of Creativity. Later he worked in his own cottage with his art studio in Staraya Ladoga.^[3]

Buchkin died in Saint Petersburg on 7 December 2024, at the age of 97.^[4]

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• House of creativity «Staraya Ladoga»
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists