Vedernikov Alexander
Alexander Vedernikov was born in a small village of Gorodets, 250 miles to the east from Moscow, in the Nizhny Novgorod province of the Russian Empire in 1898. His talent to draw was noticed early and he was taking drawing lessons from the age of 14. Alexander attended Nizhegorodsky Art College in 1921 -1924 where his principal teachers were Alexander Kuprin ( 1880-1960), a notable member of Jack of Diamonds Avant-garde group, and Artur Fonvizin ( 1883-1973), a distinguished watercolour artist.
In 1924 Vedernikov enrolled into the Leningrad Higher Art and Technical Institute ( the former Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg) in the studio of Alexei Karev (1879-1942), a future Professor and well-known painter and graphic artist. Alexander joined and exhibited with the Circle of Artists art group from 1928 and later the Leningrad Union of Artists from 1932 becoming one of the important representatives of the Leningrad school art famous for his painterly still-lives, city- and landscapes.
Vedernikov was awarded the first prize at the annual summer show in 1934. He was offered a position of the Assistant Professor at the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad in 1936 and taught at the Institute of Civil Engineering ( nowadays Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) in 1937-1960 were he was also the head of the lithographic studio.
Vedernikov travelled and exhibited extensively in Russia and his works are present at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Pushkin Fine Art Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, in important public and private collections in France, Germany, Finland, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the USA.
