Rudolf Frentz

Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz (Russian: Рудо́льф Рудо́льфович Фре́нц; 23 July 1888 – 27 December 1956) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher. Frentz, who lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, was regarded as one of the founders and representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his battle and monumental painting.

Frentz was born on 23 July 1888 in Marienburg, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, in the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire.

Horsewoman. 1925

Initially he studied from his father Rudolf Ferdinandovich Frentz (1831–1918), Academic of painting (1912), well-known Saint Petersburg master of animal and hunting paintings.

In 1918 Rudolf Frentz graduated from Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where he studied of noted battle painters Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokysh.

Since 1904 Rudolf Frentz has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. Rudolf Frentz most famous as battle and animal painter.

His personal exhibitions were in Leningrad (1928, 1970) and Saint Petersburg (2006).

Rudolf Frentz was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since foundation in 1932.

In 1929-1956 Rudolf Frentz taught at the Repin Institute of Arts, where he was professor of painting (1939–1956) and a Head of Battle-Painting workshop (since 1934).

In 1949-1956 he also was professor of painting in the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina.

Rudolf Rudolfovich Frentz died in Leningrad on 27 December 1956. His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, France, in the U.S., Germane, England, and other countries.