Nikolai Nikitovich Repin

Painter • Born 1932, Russia

Nikolai Nikitovich Repin, born in the Kursk region of Russia in 1932, is a prominent painter of the Leningrad/St. Petersburg school and one of the significant artistic figures of his generation. He studied from 1959 to 1964 at the I.E. Repin Institute under A.A. Mylnikov, M.S. Kopeikin, and V.G. Valtsev, completing his postgraduate training at the Creative Workshops of the USSR Academy of Arts in 1967, one of the highest artistic distinctions of the Soviet era. In 1971, he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR, further establishing his standing within the national art community.

Repin went on to become a Professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he worked closely for many years with fellow artists and academic leaders, contributing significantly to the training of new generations. His work focuses on portraits and landscapes, particularly scenes of Northern Russia, characterized by an academically rigorous technique softened by the atmospheric lyricism of the Russian realist tradition.

Over his career, Repin has been awarded the titles Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People’s Artist of Russia, among the highest recognitions granted to Russian painters. His works have been exhibited widely, including a major solo exhibition in Leningrad in 1986, and his paintings are held in numerous institutional collections, such as the Museum of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of the History of Leningrad, the Saratov Art Museum, the Golden Dragon Museum in Taiwan, and the Marco Dotrino Museum in Italy, as well as museums in Feodosia and Yoshkar-Ola.