Galina Stolbova

Sculptress, applied artist. Born in the family of Sergei Stolbov in the town of Glazovo in Vyatka Province (1908). Graduated from Vyatka Institute of Art and Industry (1926) and studied under Alexander Matveyev and Victor Sinaisky at the VKhUTEIN/Institute of Proletarian Fine Art/Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1927–37). Member of the Union of Artists (1936). Worked at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (1949–65). Died in St Petersburg (1996). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1948). Contributed to the Regional Art Exhibition at the Maxim Gorky Regional Museum of Art in Kirov (1948), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1951), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), Exhibition of Folk, Applied and Decorative Art of the RSFSR at the Vladimir Lenin Library in Moscow (1956–57), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958), II Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1965) and Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).