Yuri Mezhirov

Yuri Alexandrovich Mezhirov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Межиров; 7 February 1933 – 13 June 2012) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher, People artist of Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists),^[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad - Petersburg. Mezhirov belongs to the Leningrad school of painting.^[2]

Yuri Alexandrovich Mezhirov
Born	(1933-02-07)7 February 1933 Leningrad, USSR
Died	13 June 2012(2012-06-13) (aged 79) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Biography

In 1965 Mezhirov graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Victor Oreshnikov workshop with the rank of artist of painting. His degree work was a painting titled "At the Front".^[3]

In 1967 Mezhirov was adopted in the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Since 1965 he had participated in Art Exhibitions, painted genre and historical painting, landscapes, cityscapes, still life.

Mezhirov died in Saint Petersburg on 13 June 2012. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, in the U.S., Ukraine, Germany, England, and throughout the world.

See also

• Fine Art of Leningrad
• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists