Levitin Anatoly Pavlovich

People’s Artist of RSFSR. Full Member of the Academy of Arts. Member of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts. Awarded a silver medal of the Academy of Arts of USSR. In 1945-1953 studied at I.E. Repin’s Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the studio of B. Johansson, A. Zaitsev.
Since 1953 was the artistic head at the House of Art “Academic dacha” of the Artists’ Union of Russia. Participant of all-Russian, all-union, Saint-Petersburg and thematic exhibitions of USSR and Russia since 1953. In 1958 was a bronze laureate of Bien Aller in Venice. The work “Warm day” (kept at the State Russian Museum) got the silver medal of the Academy of Arts of USSR, that fact let Anatoly Levitin stated in art trip to Italy in 1973. Since 1993 is a head of the Art Creative studio at the Siberia department of the Russian Academy of Arts.
The works are presented in the State Trytyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, in the Museum of the Academy of Arts and in more than 60 museums of the world, in many private collections.