Irina Mikhailovna Baldina (
Russian: Ири́на Миха́йловна Ба́лдина; May 18, 1922 – January 15, 2009) was a Soviet Russian painter who lived and worked in
Leningrad, was a member of the
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[1] and is regarded as a representative of the
Leningrad school of painting.[2]
Biography
Irina Mikhailovna Baldina was born May 18, 1922, in
Moscow. In 1940-1941 she studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1945 after the
Great Patriotic war Baldin was admitted on the Department of Painting of the
Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad, where she studied of Alexander Debler,
Boris Fogel, Alexander Segal.
In 1947 she married
Alexei Eriomin (1919–1998), in the future well-known Russian painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1948 she had a daughter, Natalia, who later also graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad and became a painter.
Since 1951 Baldina was a permanent exhibitor of the Leningrad Art exhibitions, where she showed her work along with works by the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad. She worked mostly as a painter in genre of portrait, landscape, and still life.[4] In 1957 she was admitted in the
Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.
In 1960-1980s the main theme of her work became nature and peoples of the
Lake Onega region. She painted such paintings and sketches from the life as "The Road to Oyash", "Summer Cottages"[5] (both 1954), "Young Rowan tree", "Evening"[6] (both 1956), "Flowers bells", "A Lilac"[7] (both 1957), "Natasha",[8] "Girls on the rock"[9] (both 1960), "Girls"[10] (1961), "Uzbek woman", "Nurse"[11] (both 1962)", "Morning", "Uzbek women"[12] (both 1964), "A Postman Marya Petrovna Rodionova", "Portrait of Alexander Baldin" (both 1967), "A Portrait of Dmitry Shostakovich"[13] (1971), "A Youth"[14] (1975), "A Portrait of the Artist Alexei Eriomin"[15] (1977), "A Portrait of Spirova - the mother of the heroine of Stalingrad Natasha Kochuevskoy"[16] (1980), "Folk narrator from Karelia Irina Andreyevna Fedosov"[17] (1990), and others.
Her style is distinguished by a broad painting, vigorous stroke, intensified over the years decorative effect. She skillfully used the techniques of plein air painting, subtly passed a variety of shades of mood and color relationships in the northern nature.[18]
Irina Mikhailovna Baldina died on January 15, 2009, in
Saint Petersburg at the eighty-seventh year of life. Paintings by Irina Baldina reside in Art museums and private collections in the Russia,[8] France, Finland, the United States, Japan, Germany, England, and other countries.[13]
^Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.10.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.357, 389, 390, 392-394, 396-400, 402, 404-407.
^Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.67.
Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 357, 389, 390, 392–394, 396–400, 402, 404–407.
ISBN5-901724-21-6,
ISBN978-5-901724-21-7.
Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.67.
Irina Mikhailovna Baldina (
Russian: Ири́на Миха́йловна Ба́лдина; May 18, 1922 – January 15, 2009) was a Soviet Russian painter who lived and worked in
Leningrad, was a member of the
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[1] and is regarded as a representative of the
Leningrad school of painting.[2]
Biography
Irina Mikhailovna Baldina was born May 18, 1922, in
Moscow. In 1940-1941 she studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1945 after the
Great Patriotic war Baldin was admitted on the Department of Painting of the
Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad, where she studied of Alexander Debler,
Boris Fogel, Alexander Segal.
In 1947 she married
Alexei Eriomin (1919–1998), in the future well-known Russian painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1948 she had a daughter, Natalia, who later also graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad and became a painter.
Since 1951 Baldina was a permanent exhibitor of the Leningrad Art exhibitions, where she showed her work along with works by the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad. She worked mostly as a painter in genre of portrait, landscape, and still life.[4] In 1957 she was admitted in the
Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.
In 1960-1980s the main theme of her work became nature and peoples of the
Lake Onega region. She painted such paintings and sketches from the life as "The Road to Oyash", "Summer Cottages"[5] (both 1954), "Young Rowan tree", "Evening"[6] (both 1956), "Flowers bells", "A Lilac"[7] (both 1957), "Natasha",[8] "Girls on the rock"[9] (both 1960), "Girls"[10] (1961), "Uzbek woman", "Nurse"[11] (both 1962)", "Morning", "Uzbek women"[12] (both 1964), "A Postman Marya Petrovna Rodionova", "Portrait of Alexander Baldin" (both 1967), "A Portrait of Dmitry Shostakovich"[13] (1971), "A Youth"[14] (1975), "A Portrait of the Artist Alexei Eriomin"[15] (1977), "A Portrait of Spirova - the mother of the heroine of Stalingrad Natasha Kochuevskoy"[16] (1980), "Folk narrator from Karelia Irina Andreyevna Fedosov"[17] (1990), and others.
Her style is distinguished by a broad painting, vigorous stroke, intensified over the years decorative effect. She skillfully used the techniques of plein air painting, subtly passed a variety of shades of mood and color relationships in the northern nature.[18]
Irina Mikhailovna Baldina died on January 15, 2009, in
Saint Petersburg at the eighty-seventh year of life. Paintings by Irina Baldina reside in Art museums and private collections in the Russia,[8] France, Finland, the United States, Japan, Germany, England, and other countries.[13]
^Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. С.10.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.357, 389, 390, 392-394, 396-400, 402, 404-407.
^Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.67.
Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 357, 389, 390, 392–394, 396–400, 402, 404–407.
ISBN5-901724-21-6,
ISBN978-5-901724-21-7.
Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.67.