Lanin August Vasilievich

Leningrad and St. Petersburg painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, member of the Union of Artists since 1956 and the Union of Architects since 1954, professor at the Department of Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Architecture of the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering-SPbGASU, candidate of technical sciences architecture. Lanin's creative heritage includes more than two thousand works in different types of art, techniques and genres, belonging to several sharply different periods. Possessing incredible creative energy, purposefulness and hard work, the artist organically could not work “by inertia”, occupying one specific niche in the artistic world of Leningrad and varying the themes and techniques found once. Lanin's works reflect, first of all, the inner evolution of the artist, who was acutely aware of the hidden drama, complexity and contradictions of his time and devoted his whole life to the search for expressive means adequate to this time, allowing him to make a deep and accurate picture. artistic analysis.