Artist
Irina Vitman
1916-2012
Moscow, USSR
painter
Irina Ivanovna Vitman was born in Moscow, in the Taganka region. Her grandmother introduced her to the arts - in particular to the Russian avantgarde. She lived in Paris in the 1920s.
In 1937, she started studying at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. After WW2 - and long evacuations - , she entered the Surikov institute in Moscow, where she graduated in 1948.
In the 1970s she travelled to Paris, and produced a series of classical impressionistic images of the city, using her personal, colourful technique.
Her works are not typical of the socialist realism. She has clearly been inspired mainly by the Russian avantgarde, and her travels in France.
In 1937, she started studying at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. After WW2 - and long evacuations - , she entered the Surikov institute in Moscow, where she graduated in 1948.
In the 1970s she travelled to Paris, and produced a series of classical impressionistic images of the city, using her personal, colourful technique.
Her works are not typical of the socialist realism. She has clearly been inspired mainly by the Russian avantgarde, and her travels in France.