Elena Skuin

Elena Petrovna Skuin Soviet, Russian Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life painting.

Elena Petrovna Skuin was born April 2, 1908 in Ekaterinodar, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire, in the teachers family, who arrived in the Kuban from Riga. After graduation nineyears high school she studied in 19261930 at the Kuban Teachers College, where she gained first professional skills of the painter. After graduating from college in 19301931 she taught drawing in high school in Krasnodar. Ability to draw, a bright character and a desire to improve in their chosen profession identified further choice of the path.

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