Vladimir Zhdanov Winter landscape
Born in the Siberian city of Omsk in 1959, Vladimir Zhdanov currently lives and works in the town of Pushkin (Saint-Petersburg). The artist is particularly captivated by the life of Russian peasants of the 19th century. Zhdanov works in oils, watercolors and pastels.
From 1980 to 1983 Zhdanov studied at Omsk State University, the graphic arts department, then entered the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Arts, from which he graduated in 1986. Prior to 1999, Zhdanov lived and worked in Siberia (Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tobolsk and Tara). For several years he worked in the Siberian taiga village. Drawing landscapes from nature, has developed technology of oil and watercolors painting at low temperatures – to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Noteworthy, in 1995, he painted icons for the iconostasis of the Savior Cathedral of Tara in the north of Western Siberia. When Zhdanov moved to St. Petersburg in 1999 in his works appeared new topics. Among them – parks of royal residences in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, the ancient Russian cities, fortresses and monasteries, and a new series of still lifes.

His works are in many private collections in Russia and abroad, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, the mayor of New York, the US consul in St. Petersburg, and the US Embassy in Moscow. On the work of Vladimir Zhdanov were filmed two movies, one of which was presented at the All-Russian festival of television films in St. Petersburg in 1998.

Vladimir Zhdanov Winter landscape

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