Leonid Kabachek

Born: 1924, Dmitriyevsk (Donetsk Province)
Died: 2002, St Petersburg
Movements:
Socialist Realism

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Kabachek in the town of Dmitriyevsk (renamed Makeyevka in 1931) in east Ukraine (1924). Moved with his family to Leningrad (1925). Studied at the First Children’s School of Art in Leningrad (1939–41), Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1941–42, 1945–47), under Leonid Ovsyannikov, Boris Vogel, Alexander Zaitsev and Boris Johanson at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1947–53) and in Alexander Gerasimov’s studio at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1953–57). Fought in the Second World War (1942–45). Member of the Union of Artists (1955). Painted Socialist Realist works depicting life in the Soviet Union (1950s–60s) and the Siege of Leningrad (1970–75). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1968). Taught painting at the Alexander Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad (1970–79). Died in St Petersburg and buried at the St Petersburg Crematorium Cemetery (2002). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1953). Contributed to Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum and Union of Artists in Leningrad (1961), Leningrad: Zonal Exhibition at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1964), Our Contemporary: Zonal Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum and Union of Artists in Leningrad (1975), Fine Art of Leningrad at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1976), Zonal Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Leningrad (1980), Portraiture in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02) and Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).

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