Mikhail Kopeikin

Painter, graphic artist, teacher, writer on art. Born in the family of Semyon Kopeikin in the village of Borschovo to the north-west of Moscow (1905). Studied under Daniil Daran in Moscow (1923–26), at the Anatoly Lunacharsky Workers Faculty of the Arts (1926–30) and under Isaac Brodsky, Vasily Yakovlev and Alexander Lyubimov at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1934–39). Taught art at the Sergei Kirov Palace of Culture (1935–40), Leningrad University (1946), Vera Mukhina School of Art and Industry (1946–50) and the Ilya Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1950–81). Member of the Union of Artists (1947). Professor (1966). Published Materials and Techniques of Drawing in Moscow (1983). Died in Leningrad (1983). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1935). Contributed to Twenty Years of the Red Army and Navy at the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Institute in Moscow (1938), Central House of the Red Army in Moscow (1938–39) and the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1939), Kislovodsk Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours and Graphic Art by Soviet Artists in Kislovodsk (1939), Exhibition of Works by Artists of Leningrad at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1941), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists in Leningrad (1947), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1950), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1950 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1950–51), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1951), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1952), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958), Portraiture in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02) and St Petersburg: A Portrait of the City and its Citizens at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2003).