Velikanova Regina Vasilyevna - Soviet painter and graphic artist, member of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Union of Soviet Artists and the Artists Union of Kazakhstan, representative of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) school of painting. She was born in 1894 in Lugansk. After the family moved to St. Petersburg in 1912-1917, she studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. In 1920 she entered the Petrograd State Free Art and Training Workshops, learned from V.E. Saninsky, V.N. Meshkov, O.E. Braza, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Studied at the All-Russian... далее

Velikanova Regina Vasilyevna - Soviet painter and graphic artist, member of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Union of Soviet Artists and the Artists Union of Kazakhstan, representative of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) school of painting. She was born in 1894 in Lugansk. After the family moved to St. Petersburg in 1912-1917, she studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. In 1920 she entered the Petrograd State Free Art and Training Workshops, learned from V.E. Saninsky, V.N. Meshkov, O.E. Braza, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Studied at the All-Russian Academy of Arts (1920-1924) with teachers K. Petrov-Vodkin, A. Rylov. Participated in exhibitions since 1925. She painted urban and rural landscapes, portraits, genre compositions. In the second half of the 1920s joined the collective ‘Group of pictorial-plastic realism’, formed around V.Yermolaeva, the core of which were former employees of Ginhuk - K. I. Rozhdestvensky, L. A. Yudin, V. V. Sterligov, K. V., M. V. Ender. After the formation in 1932 of the Leningrad Regional Union of Soviet Artists became its member. In 1935 she took part in the First Exhibition of Leningrad artists in the Russian Museum. She co-operated with magazines and book publishers as an illustrator of books for children, was engaged in lithography. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War she stayed in besieged Leningrad, surviving the most terrible winter of 1941-1942. In March 1942 together with her mother and brother was evacuated on the ice of Lake Ladoga through Tikhvin, Yaroslavl, Novosibirsk to Kazakhstan. Here the whole family remained after the war, linking their fate with Kazakhstan. Р. Velikanova was accepted as a member of the Artists Union of the Kazakh SSR. She worked as an artist in ‘Kazgoslitizdat’, illustrated poems of the great Kazakh poet Abai, works of children's literature. Basically, uses watercolour paints, sometimes gouache, graphic drawings are mainly made by pencil, also, there are autolithographs. Engaged in graphics and painting. She wrote urban and landscape landscapes, portraits. Works of Regina Velikanova are devoted mainly to the urban landscape of Almaty and its suburbs. The Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan keeps a personal fund of Regina Velikanova, which includes creative materials of the artist - watercolour drawings, sketches, illustrations, as well as biographical documents - photographs, diary entries, letters from friends and relatives, including from V. V. Voinov, V. V. Sterligov and T. N. Glebova, E. F. Kovtun, O. Y. Klever, S. A. Baturina and others. R. V. Velikanova's collection in the TsGA the Republic of Kazakhstan also contains drafts of her memoirs about V. M. Yermolaeva and K. S. Malevich, which she wrote at the request of E. F. Kovtun. скрыть