Sergei Frolov

Sergei Frolov was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). He was born on 26 September 1924 in Baklanka, a village in the Vologda 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 1948, 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 1998 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 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.