Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov was born February 18, 1909, in Serdobsk, in the former Saratov Province of the Russian Empire. Mr. Bazhenov's own father was an art teacher, and was the first to teach young Vsevolod to paint. His mother was a pianist and instilled in him a love of music from an early age.  Vsevolod continued his higher education at the art studios of painters A. Gofert and N. Kuzmin, graduating from the local art school in Serdobsk.

Mr. Bazhenov greatly advanced his studies from 1927 to 1930 at the Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad, under such Masters as Mikhail Avilov, David Kiplick, and Vladimir Fedorovich.

Mr. Bazhenov lived and worked in Leningrad, and became a member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation, the Leningrad Commonwealth of Artists, in 1952.

Beginning in 1934, Mr. Bazhenov worked at the Leningrad mapping factory.  This enabled him to be included in expeditions to the North and the South Urals, Armenia, Kurdistan, in Khibiny, Karelia.  He was even able to travel to Europe and Asia.  Mr. Bazhenov took advantage of this privilege and gathered a wealth of material for his famous landscape artworks, which display a profound understanding and love of nature. These experiences, along with his innate abilities, and vast education, make him one of the most outstanding landscape painters.  

While famous for his small-format etudes done from nature, he also painted genre scenes and seascapes.

Four personal exhibitions of Vsevolod Bazhenov artworks were in Leningrad in 1959, 1963, and 1982.  Additional exhibits were held in Saint Petersburg in 1994 and 2009.  He participated in the All-Union Exhibition in 1951.

A major grouping of Mr. Bazhenov's artworks were painted in 1962 during the voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", while traveling from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam.   During this same 3-month adventure of eleven of the seas and oceans,  Mr. Bazhenov created nearly two hundred sketches, paintings, and drawings. These works were first exhibited in 1963 at the Personal Exhibition of Vsevolod Bazhenov in Leningrad, and later in other cities.

From the latter half of the 1950's through the early 1960's Vsevolod Bazhenov was a head of small group of Leningrad artists who created works of art created for the war room companies of the ocean ships and submarines. He helped develop technology that protects oil paintings from high humidity during a long voyage.

Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov died in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1986. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, England, in the U.S., China, and throughout the world.

Major paintings by Vsevolod Andreevich Bazhenov:
Mstinskoye Lake
Ploughed Field 1950
Black Birds, 1952
Breaking of Spring

After 1961:
Lights on the Angara River
First Flush of Grass
Spring, 1971
Dark Clouds

Vail Fine Art Gallery, Inc. is honored to represent this Soviet Era Master Russian Impressionist.