ANNA LEPORSKAYA 1900−1982

Master of decorative and applied arts, painter, graphic artist

Anna Leporskaya was born to a family of a teacher in Chernihiv, Ukraine. She spent her childhood in Vyatka and in Pskov, where she finished a gymnasium. For some time, she worked as a teacher in school. In 1918–1922 Leporskaya studied in the School of Industrial Art in Pskov, in 1922–1925 — at Petrograd State Free Art Studios — the Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS), under the guidance of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1925–1927 Leporskaya studied and worked in the State Institute of Artistic Culture (GINKhUK) under Kazimir Malevich. In the same years she met the pupil of Malevich — the painter Nikolai Suetin; later they got married.

Leporskaya lived in Petrograd (Leningrad). She travelled a lot through the country. Leporskaya was engaged in easel painting and graphic art; she often created watercolors. She painted landscapes, still-life, and portraits. Since 1927 she took part in exhibitions of art. Leporskaya also worked as a designer of exhibitions spaces. She designed art section of the pavilion of the USSR at the Paris World Fair (1937), took part in the design of the USSR pavilion at the World exhibition in New York (1939).

Since 1942 Leporskaya worked as a sculptor at the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, since 1948 she was a staff artist at the factory, designed forms of porcelain pieces. In 1962 Leporskaya was awarded gold medal for the service Leningrad at the international exhibition of ceramics in Prague.

In 2007 the exhibition of works by the artist was held in Moscow.

Works by Anna Leporskaya are in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Hermitage Museum (the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory), the All-Russia Museum of Decorative–Applied and Folk Art, the State Museum of Ceramics and Kuskovo Museum Estate.