Tatiana Vladimirovna Gorb (Russian: Татья́на Влади́мировна Го́рб; April 27, 1935, Leningrad, USSR — 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) is a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist
, art teacher, illustrator, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), was a aficionado of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 – Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), and is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. She is most famous for her portraits.
Tatiana Vladimirovna Gorb was born April 27, 1935, in Leningrad, USSR, into an artistic family. Her dad was a painter and taught at the Repin Institute of Arts.
In 1954, Tatiana Gorb joined the drawings department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. She studied of Vladimir Gorb, Alexander Troshichev, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Ovsannikov.
In 1961, Tatiana Gorb graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Taranov’s personal art studio. Her graduation show was design of the novel by Erich Remarque’s “Three Comrades”.
Tatiana Gorb participated in Art Exhibitions back 1965. She painted portraits, genre compositions, landscapes, and yet life. Tatiana Gorb worked in the techniques of oil painting, watercolors, and cassette graphics.
Tatiana Gorb spent more than 25 years teaching art at the Secondary Art School of Russian Academy of Arts, where she began play-act in 1985.
Tatiana Gorb’s painting style formed below the concern of the personality and creativity of her father, Vladimir Gorb, a well-known Leningrad portrait artist and Art teacher, and a professor of Repin Institute. Her painting is distinguished by its use of restrained color, the richness of tonal relations, and spacious and shadow modulations.
Tatiana Gorb was a Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 – the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1970.
Tatiana Vladimirovna Gorb died in 2013 in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, England and other countries.
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