Artist Ilia Zaitseff
St. Petersburg, 1961
Born in St. Petersburg, Ilia Zaitseff immigrated to Canada in 1997 and settled in Montreal. He painted still lifes and landscapes until 2001 when he started producing paintings inspired by art from the Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance. This change in genre coincided with his being selected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to exhibit three of his paintings. Zaitseff was 24 when he graduated from the State Naval University of St. Petersburg. He studied mechanical engineering graphic design, majoring in naval construction. He nevertheless soon chose to indulge his love of art and at 28 he became a guide-interpreter at the prestigious HermitageMuseum. He took courses at the Mukhina Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (formerly known as the Baron Schtiglitz Drawing Academy).
Born in St. Petersburg, Ilia Zaitseff immigrated to Canada in 1997 and settled in Montreal. He painted still lifes and landscapes until 2001 when he started producing paintings inspired by art from the Middle Ages and the Northern Renaissance. This change in genre coincided with his being selected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to exhibit three of his paintings. Zaitseff was 24 when he graduated from the State Naval University of St. Petersburg. He studied mechanical engineering graphic design, majoring in naval construction. He nevertheless soon chose to indulge his love of art and at 28 he became a guide-interpreter at the prestigious HermitageMuseum. He took courses at the Mukhina Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg (formerly known as the Baron Schtiglitz Drawing Academy).
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