Tatiana Kopnina

Tatiana Vladimirovna Kopnina (Татья́на Влади́мировна Копнина́; November 11, 1921 – March 6, 2009) was a Soviet Russian painter and art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg. She is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, and is most known for her portrait paintings.

Biography
Kopnina was born November 11, 1921, in Krasnoyarsk, East Siberia, Soviet Russia. In 1950 she graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Avilov workshop. She was a pupil of Alexander Zaytsev, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Semion Abugov.

Beginning in 1949, Kopnina participated in art exhibitions. She painted portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes. She had a solo art exhibition in Leningrad in 1985.

Kopnina became a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists in 1950. From 1960 to 1990 she worked as an art teacher in the Secondary Art School of Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad.

Kopnina died on March 6, 2009, in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings are in museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, the U.S., China, and other countries.