Artist

Born 1941

Moscow, USSR

Graphic artist

Andrei Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was born in Moscow in an artist's family. His father was Aleksandr Bogdanov, a famous Moscow artist and sportsman - 10 times Moscow champion in fencing.

Andrei Aleksandrovich attended the Moscow Surikov Institute, where his teacher was Tsyplakov. Upon graduation in 1966 he travelled extensively in Central Asia, the Far East and Altai.

During the late 1960's and the 1970's he painted a large amount of sporting scenes, many of them fencing, as well as portraits of several of famous Soviet sportsmen and sportswomen. He himself is a skilled fencer and swimmer.

His later works concentrate on the Russian landscape and the Russian village, and one of his most favourite themes is the old centre of St. Petersburg.

Andrei Aleksandrovich is still a very active painter in Moscow. His wife is the artist Maria Laktionova - daugther of Aleksandr Laktionov, one of the most famous artists of post-war socialist realism.

 

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