Movement Realism Died November 11, 1991 | Role Artist Name Nadezhda Shteinmiller Period Realism | |
Born February 16, 1915 Petrograd, Russian Empire Known for Painting, Graphics, Scenography | ||
Education Imperial Academy of Arts | ||
Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller (Russian: Наде́жда Па́вловна Штейнми́ллер; February 16, 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, art teacher, Scenographer, and Stage designer who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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Biography
Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller was born February 16, 1915, in the Petrograd, Russian Empire.
In 1937, Nadezhda Shteinmiller entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There she studied under Boris Fogel, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexander Zaytsev, and Igor Grabar.
In 1946, Nadezhda Shteinmiller graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin as stage designer in Mikhail Bobishov workshop. Her graduated work was design the play by E. Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Since 1947, Nadezhda Shteinmiller has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, cityscapes, still lifes, landscapes, genre paintings, sketches for the thearte costums and set-scenes. She worked in watercolor, oil and tempera paintings. A talented colorist, mastered techniques of plein air painting.
The beauty of color and fundamental composition attached to her works soft poetic sounds, raising levels of everyday scenes to complete and profound image. Development of a picturesque manners went in the direction of strengthening decorative qualities of painting.
Since 1946, Nadezhda Shteinmiller was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In years of 1940-1960s, Nadezhda Shteinmiller taught drawings and painting in the Leningrad's Higher School of Art and Industry (since 1953 named after Vera Mukhina).
Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller died on November 11, 1991 in Leningrad. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in Russia, Germane, France, England, the U.S., Italy, and others.