Lev Ovchinnikov. Autolithography. Tiger with a cub.

Lev Ovchinnikov. Autolithography. Tiger with a cub.
1997. Size: 23 x 23 cm. Signature 17\3.

Ovchinnikov Lev avksentyevich (6 Aug 1926, d. Purekh, Nizhny Novgorod province — March 4, 2003, St. Petersburg) — Russian Soviet painter, graphic artist, sculptor and applied, member of Saint Petersburg Union of artists (before 1992 — Leningrad branch of Union of artists of the RSFSR).

Lev avksentievich Ovchinnikov was born on August 6, 1926 in the village of Purekh, Nizhny Novgorod region. In the 1950s, he studied at the Leningrad art and pedagogical College. I started painting relatively late, having the Rostov naval school (graduated in 1943) and a solid work and life experience. Participated in exhibitions since the late 1950s, exhibiting his work together with the works of the leading masters of fine art in Leningrad. In 1963, he was accepted as a member of the Leningrad Union of artists in the painting section. He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, worked in the technique of oil painting, etching, woodcut, linocut, monotype, drawing, pastels, watercolors. In his Mature work, he tended to symbolism, conventions of color and composition, and to a soft, sometimes ironic interpretation of images of Russian folklore.

Among created by Lev Ovchinnikov paintings paintings "On the Vaigach" (1958), "Porch" (1959), "hoar-Frost"[3] (1960), "port", "At the shipyard"[ (both 1961), "On the river"[ (1962), "Old Ladoga", "Transportation" (both 1968), "Landscape with cypresses", "Worker", "portrait", "the old Man" (all 1970), Window (1971), "White night" (1975), "Old Ladoga", "fishing" (both 1977), "Window", "Portrait" (both 1978), "Morning", "Cactus", "Flood" (all 1980), "Model in Studio" (1984), "the shop" (1985) and others.

Lev avksentievich Ovchinnikov died on March 4, 2003 in Saint Petersburg at the age of seventy-seven. His works are in museums and private collections in Russia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, the United States and other countries.