Sergei Osipov Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1915 - d. 1985

Sergei Ivanovich Osipov (September 22, 1915, Stepankovo, Bezhetsky Uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire – 1985, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.[1] He regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[2] most known for his landscape and still life paintings.

Sergei Osipov was born in a peasant family in the village of Stepankovo in the Bezhetsky Uyezd of the Tver Governorate. Since pre-revolutionary years, his father worked on construction in Petrograd.

Osipov started his education in primary school of the village of Porechie. In 1927 he coming to his father in Leningrad. Here he graduated seven classes of secondary school ? 57 and enters a pupil at the plant. Then he works with his father in construction. At the same time Osipov attending evening classes of Tavricheskaya Art School, where he studied with famous teachers Vladimir Sukov and Semion Abugov.[3]

In 1932, Sergei Osipov entered the preparatory classes at the Russian Academy of Arts, and in 1936 he became a student of painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied of Semion Abugov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky.[4]