Vyacheslav Frantsevich Zagonek - Artist Info

About Vyacheslav Frantsevich Zagonek

  • Biography

    Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek (Russian: ???????´? ???´?????? ????´???; December 19, 1919 – June 24, 1994) was a Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR, Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists[1] and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes and genre paintings.

    Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek was born December 19, 1919, in the city Irkutsk, East Siberia.

    In 1927 Vecheslav Zagonek with parents comes to Leningrad. In 1936–1939 he studied at the Secondary Art School under All-Russian Academy of Art.

    In 1939 Vecheslav Zagonek was drafted into the Red Ar...

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