Dmitri Dmitriev Zhilinksy (25 May 25 1927, Volnovka - July 29, 2015, Moscow); Russian painter. Born in the village of Volkovka near Sochi on the Black Sea, he studied at the Institute of Research and Decorative Arts in Moscow from 1944 to 1946, and then until 1951 at the Surikov Art Institute under Nikolai Chernyshov, Semyon Chuikov and Pavel Korin. Exhibiting from 1954, Zhilinsky belonged to the Union of Artists of the Soviet Union and sought to develop a Socialist Realism which incorporated influences from Italian Neorealism. Honored Artist of the RSFSR and corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Husband of sculptor Nina Zhilinskaya (1926 - 1995). (http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.nl/2014/09/two-plus-paintings-by-dmitri-zhilinksy.html) Zhilinsky was born 25 May 1927 in the village of Volkovka, Krasnodar, Black Sea Region of Russia, the USSR. In 1944-1946 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. In 1951 he graduated from Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after VI Surikov. On the 80th anniversary of the painter, the walls of the Tretyakov Gallery were decorated with the paintings of Dmitry Zhilinsky. His works had been collected from different museums of the former USSR. Several canvases are on permanent display in the Tretyakov Gallery. Soviet artist Dmitry Zhilinsky died in Moscow on July 29, 2015. He was buried at the Troekurov cemetery. (Continued at http://soviet-art.ru/soviet-artist-dmitry-zhilinsky/) undefined

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