About Aleksandr Vedernikov
Lived 1898 – 1975 (aged 76). Aleksandr Vedernikov was a Russian painter, printmaker and graphic artist.
Alexander Semyonovich Vedernikov (; 23 November 1898 - 21 January 1975) was a Russian artist. He was born in the city of Gorodets in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. He studied at the Nizhny Novgorod art workshops (1921–24) with Alexander V. Kuprin and Artur Fonvizin, and at the Leningrad Vkhutemas-Vhutein (1924–28) with Osip Braz and Alexei Karev.
He was a member of the Society "" (Круг художников) (1928-30) and from 1939 he worked at the Leningrad Experimental Lithographic Workshop.
Identified with the Leningrad landscape school, his work was exhibited in numerous shows of Leningrad artists in the postwar decades. His paintings are preserved in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
He died in Leningrad in 1975.
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Russian painter (1898-1975)
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Aleksandr Vedernikov was born on 23 November 1898 in Gorodets.
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Aleksandr Vedernikov died on 21 January 1975 in Saint Petersburg.
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Aleksandr Vedernikov was a painter, printmaker and graphic artist.
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Aleksandr Vedernikov was Russian.
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