The Russian Academy Of Arts

Timed to the 120th anniversary of  Peter Kotov (1889-1953),  Full Member of the USSR Academy of Arts,  Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, Winner of the USSR State Prize, the exhibition features paintings created by the artist  in 1913-1953.

 

Peter Kotov is a recognized master of portraits, historical and battle-scene painting, he is an author of well-known canvases devoted to the industrialization topic.  In his works the artist continued the best traditions of realism in art.

 

He has created a vast portrait gallery of noted public figures, representatives of science and art.  The most expressive are his portraits of marshals George Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Ivan Bagramyan; academicians Nikolai Burdenko and Leon Orbely, actresses Elena Gogoleva and Alla Tarasova and many others. For his portrait of academician Nikolai Zelinsky the master was awarded the USSR State Prize.

 

Peter Kotov was born in Astrakhan province in 1889. He  studied at the Kazan Art School under Nikolai Feshin, in 1916 he graduated from the Higher Art College of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg where he studied under Frants Rubo, Nikolai Samokshin, Yan Tsionglinsky. Peter Kotov taught  a whole galaxy of artists at the Higher State Art Workshops in Astrakhan, Kiev Art Institute, Kharkov Art Institute, V. Surikov Moscow State  Academy Art Institute.

 

The artist’s works are in collections of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery,  and other museums of Moscow, Astrakhan, Bryansk, Irkutsk, Nizhni Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, as well as in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine.     

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