Galina Rumiantseva

1927 - 2004

 Galina Alekseevna Rumyantseva was born June 23,1927 in Sestroretsk, Leningrad Oblast.

In 1945, she entered the Tavricheskaya Art School from which she graduated in 1950. Her graduation works depicted Mikhail Lomonosov (an C18th Russian scientist and writer) at the meeting of the Academic Council, and in the chemical laboratory.

In 1951, Rumyantseva entered the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. There she studied under noted art educators Alexander Zaytsev, Vasily Sokolov, and Leonid Khudiakov.

After graduating in 1957, she worked in Boris Ioganson’s workshop and exhibited from 1958 when she also became a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists (since 1992 named as Saint Petersburg Union of Artists).

Galina died in Saint Petersburg in 2004. Her paintings reside in public and private collections in Russia, England, Germany, France, Italy, the U.S., Australia and others.