The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design is the oldest school of design in Russia. It occupies a parcel of land immediately to the east of the Summer Garden in Saint Petersburg.
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The Stieglitz Museum
The exhibition hall
Vera Mukhina
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Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina was a Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". She was one of the members of the art association ‘The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow
Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
…it became the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. It was renamed the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in 1953 (after Vera Mukhina, the monumentalist author of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, whose name was a symbol of Soviet art). As Mukhina was not personally linked to the school, the…
Portrait by Mikhail Nesterov, 1940, oils; Tretyakov Gallery
Theatrical costume design (1916)