Boris Shamanov

Boris Ivanovich Shamanov (Russian: Бори́с Ива́нович Шама́нов; September 15, 1931, Leningrad, USSR – March 1, 2008, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Biography

Boris Ivanovich Shamanov was born September 15, 1931, in Leningrad, USSR.

In 1948, Boris Shamanov entered at the first course of the department of monumental painting of the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. Boris Shamanov studied of Piotr Buchkin, Alexei Sokolov, Sergei Petrov, Kirill Iogansen.

In 1956 Boris Shamanov graduated in the Alexander Kazantsev workshop.

Since 1957 Boris Shamanov has participated in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, still lifes with flowers in exterior, genre scenes, and landscapes. Boris Shamanov worked in oils, tempera, and watercolors.