Andrei Afanasievich Egorov - Artist Info

About Andrei Afanasievich Egorov

Name variants

Andrei Afanasievich Egrov, Andrei Afanasievich Jegerov, Anfrei Afanasievich Jegorov, Andrei Yegorov, Andrey Afanasievich Yegorov
  • Biography

    Andrei Afanasievich Egorov was born on July 2, 1878, in Aruküla, Harju County, Estonia, and died on January 30, 1954, in Tallinn, Estonia. Egorov was a landscape painter and Honored Artist of the Estonian SSR. He studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St. Petersburg from 1898 to 1901, and later at the Imperial Academy of Arts beginning in 1902, where he worked under Ilya Repin and Dmitry Kardovsky.

    In 1909, Egorov was awarded the title of artist for his painting In the Village. He lived and worked in Petrograd and Tallinn, and became a member of the A.I. Kuindzhi Society in 1911. Egorov painted primarily landscapes, often depicting rural scenes with lyrical restraint....

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