Aleksandr Samokhvalov
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Aleksandr (Nikolayevich) Samokhvalov
(b Bezhetsk, Tver' region, 21 Aug 1894; d Leningrad [now St Petersburg], 20 Aug 1974). Russian painter and graphic artist. He trained at the Faculty of Architecture of the Academy of Arts in Petrograd from 1914 to 1917 and in Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin's workshop at the Petrograd Free Studios (Svomas) from 1920 to 1923. He travelled with Petrov-Vodkin to Samarkand and spent many years under the influence of his art. In 1924 Samokhvalov designed a memorial to Lenin in Leningrad in the form of a gigantic glass cube (untraced), which is notable for the breadth and boldness of the idea. While participating in the restoration of St George's Church in Staraya Ladoga, in the Leningrad region, he studied the style of Old Russian monumental painting, which influenced many of his works, for example the Woman Spartacist (1927; Moscow, Vuchetich A. & Prod. Complex) and Man with a Scarf: Self-portrait (1927; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.).
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Aleksandr Samokhvalov
Aleksandr Samokhvalov may refer to
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Samokhvalov (b. 1984), Russian footballer
- Aleksandr Andreyevich Samokhvalov (1894-1974), Soviet painter and graphic artist
- Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (1894–1971), Russian/Soviet painter
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