Alexander Pogrebinsky - Artist Info

About Alexander Pogrebinsky

  • Biography

    Born into an artistic family in Kiev, Russia, Alexander Pogrebinsky grew up with parents who were distinguished artists of the Socialist Realist school of painting in the Soviet Union. They were Peter Nikolayevich Pogrebinsky (1911 - 2002) and his Liubov Romanovna Solona (1914 - 1990) both graduates of the Kiev Institute of Art, now known as the Kiev Academy of Arts.

    In 1958, Pogrebinsky entered a special French school, where all subjects where taught in the French language, and in 1963, he entered the only high school for the arts in the whole of Ukraine. Along with the regular curriculum of the school, it also offered intense courses in the fine arts, and prepared the young students for the future as professional artists. The fir...

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