Piotr Petrovich Belousov was born on 3 May 1912 in the port city of
Berdiansk, located on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, of south-east Ukraine, Russian Empire. In 1929, Piotr Belousov met with Brodsky and by his invitation comes to Leningrad to continue his study. He engaged in drawing and painting under Brodsky leadership, as well as in the studio AKhRs and the Community of Artists. In 1933, Piotr Belousov entered the first course of the painting department of the
Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied under
Mikhail Bernshtein,
Pavel Naumov,
Alexander Lubimov, and
Vladimir Serov. In 1939, Piotr Belousov graduated from the
Repin Institute of Arts in
Isaak Brodsky workshop together with
Aleksei Gritsai,
Lev Orekhov,
Mikhail Kozell,
Gleb Verner,
Elena Skuin,
Nikolai Timkov,
Boris Sherbakov, and other young artists. His graduation work was the historical painting of "On the eve of [the] October Revolution (Meeting of
Lenin and
Stalin)". Since 1930, Belousov had participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, worked in easel painting and drawings. He is most famous for his portraits and historical paintings devoted to the image of Lenin, the history of Bolshevism and the
October Revolution in Russia. His personal exhibitions were in the city of Vologda in 1959, and in Moscow in 1982. Since 1940, Piotr Belousov had been a member of the
Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1939–1989, Belousov taught painting and drawing in the
Repin Institute of Arts. He was Professor and Head of Department of Drawing since 1956. In 1970, he was awarded the honorary titles of the
Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 1978 - the Honorary titles of the
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1978). Also, Belousov was elected as the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1979). Piotr Petrovich Belousov died in Leningrad in 1989. Paintings by Piotr Belousov reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art Museums and private collections in Russia, Ukraine, England, France, the U.S., and throughout the world. ==See also==