Evgenia Antipova was a Russian Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and Art teacher, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting. Evgenia Antipova was born on October 19, 1917 in Tver Governorate. Her father was a railway office worker. Since 1928 she lived with her parents in Samara on the Volga River. There she began to get busy in an artistic studio. From 1935, She lived in Leningrad. In 1936–1939 she studied in the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. In 1939 she entered the painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture In 1939 she at first participated in the All-Union Youth Artistic Exhibition in Moscow. On July 28, 1941 she made, a fourth-year student of the department of monumental painting. Called up to serve in the Red Army, he perished at the front in May 1942. Up to the beginning of 1942, she remained in blockaded Leningrad. In February 1942, she was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where she lived and worked up to the end of the wIn 1945 she returned to Leningrad and in 1950 graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Boris Ioganson's personal art studio. Her graduate work was a painting named Andrey Zhdanov visits the Palace of Young Pioneers in Leningrad. In 1950–1952 taught painting and composition in Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. Since 1950 she participated in art exhibitions. In 1953 she was accepted as a member of Leningrad Union of Artists. She painted genre and decorative compositions, portraits, landscapes, still life paintings, worked in oils and watercolours. Among her favorite themes and motives were a blossoming apple orchard, the Crimean landscape, still life in interior, and in the exterior. Among the known paintings of the 1950th and beginning of 1960ths. They give an idea of the range of possibilities and direction of creative searches of artist. She gravitated to the expression of her individual attitude in themes, not applying on the exhaustive scope of the phenomena of life. In 1960th she tries itself in a series of portraits. From the end of 1960th leading genres in the creation of Antipova were still life in an interior and exterior, and also landscape. The prevailing style of painting is distinguished by several conventional drawing and composition, the interest for the transmission of color and light and air. Among the most known works of this period City care seen as images of the perfect world in which man finds harmony with nature and in his soul. This is the main theme of her art she continued until her death. Evgenia Antipova had personal exhibitions in Leningrad — Saint Petersburg in 1967, 1988, 1999 paintings by Antipova successfully exhibited at fine art auctions and exhibitions of Russian paintings. She died on January 27, 2009 in the city of Saint Petersburg, ninety-one years old. Her paintings reside in the State Russian Museum, and in many art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, England and others.

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