Rudolf Frentz

Rudolf Frentz was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was born on 23 July 1888 in Marienburg, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, in the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. He learned from his father Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz, a well-known Russian master of animal and hunting paintings. He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1918, where he studied under Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokysh. He participated in various exhibitions and painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. He was a founding member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and taught at the Repin Institute of Arts and the Vera Mukhina Institute. He died in 1956 in Leningrad, Soviet Union, of a shrapnel wound he received during the siege of Leningrad. His paintings are now displayed in various museums and galleries, such as the Central Naval Museum, the State Russian Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is considered one of the most original and influential Russian realist painters of the 20th century.