Levant Vladislav Lvovich

Soviet painter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Since 1964, a member of the Union of Artists (LOSH of the RSFSR). He was born on March 15, 1931 in Leningrad. In 1956-1962 he studied at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin at the picturesque faculty. In 1962 he graduated from the institute on the workshop of Professor Yu. M. Neprintsev with the assignment of the artist’s skill in painting. Thesis work is the picture “Drivers”. Participated in exhibitions since 1962, exhibiting his works together with the works of the leading masters of fine arts of Leningrad. He painted genre and thematic paintings, portraits, landscapes. In creativity, he gravitated toward the image of a contemporary, revealed in a portrait-picture with a developed storyline. In 1964 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists. For the work of the 1970s was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Author of pictures “Metrostroevtsy. (1964), Minute of Silence (1969), Watchtower, Commander of a Missile Ship (both 1971), Portrait of Artist Yu. Rodionov, Portrait of a Submariner V. Zvyagin (both 1972), Speech by VI Lenin at the Finland Station, “” Smena “,” People and the Sea “(all 1975),” S. M. Kirov on Electrosila, “” Anxiety “(both 1977). Levant Vladislav Lvovich died in 1978 in Leningrad. His works are in museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, Italy and other countries.

Photo: Levant VL “Anxiety” 1977