Pyotr Fomin

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Timofei Fomin in the village of Ledyakha in the south-east of Pskov Province (1919). Moved with his family to Leningrad (1931), where he studied at the Vyborg District School of Art (1936–38) and the studio of art at the House of Teachers (1938). Fought in the Second World War (1941–45). Studied under Victor Oreshnikov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Josif Serebryany and Andrei Mylnikov at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1946–52). Member of the Union of Artists (1952), board chairman of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists (1972–75). Winner of the Ilya Repin Prize (1983), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1988). Taught at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1953–96), professor (from 1971), rector (1983–91). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1977), People’s Artist of the USSR (1991). Died in St Petersburg and buried at the Volkovo Cemetery (1996). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1952). Contributed to Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958), Leningrad: Zonal Exhibition at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1964), Our Contemporary: Zonal Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum and Union of Artists in Leningrad (1975), Fine Art of Leningrad at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1976), Zonal Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Leningrad (1980), Impressionism in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000) and one-man shows at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1984), Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1986), Pskov Museum Complex of History, Architecture and Art in Pskov (1995) and the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St Petersburg (1994, 2000).