Boris Valentinovich Scherbakov - Artist Info

About Boris Valentinovich Scherbakov

Name variants

Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov, Boris Valentinovich Shtsherbakov
  • Biography

    Boris Scherbakov was born in the year 1916 into a dynasty of Russian artists. In the year 1933 at the age of 17 years old, he began his formal education at the Russian Fine Art Academy. He studied with important Russian artist Isaac Israelevitch Brodsky 1883 - 1938, Vladimir Yakovlev 1934 - 1998, and P. Shukhmin.

    In 1952, he was awarded the USSR State Award for taking part in creating the painting “Session of the Presidium of the Scientific Academy of the USSR together with several artists and for a series of portraits of scientists. In 1973 he was selected as a corresponding member of the Art Academy of the USSR.

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