Movement Realism Known for Painting | Role Artist Name Anatoli Levitin | |
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Awards Order of HonourOrder of the Patriotic WarMedal "For the Victory Over Germany"Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" | ||
Education Imperial Academy of Arts | ||
Anatoli Pavlovich Levitin (Russian: Анатолий Павлович Левитин; July 16, 1922, Moscow, Soviet Russia) is a Soviet Russian painter and art educator, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists), who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait paintings.
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
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