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Herman p. Mikhailov (March 6, 1924, Leningrad - January 16, 1988, Rostov-na-Donu) - Soviet artist, teacher.
Born March 6, 1924 in Leningrad.
Since childhood, fond of painting, was engaged in the House of pioneers, in the Children's art school at the Academy of fine arts. Before the war, back in school, they drove to the workshop of P. N. Filonov and the memory of it remain forever.
During the Siege of Leningrad, worked in a munitions factory.
In 1944, after returning from evacuation the Academy of fine arts, Herman Mikhailov entered the fifth year of Art school, and in 1945 - on the picturesque faculty of the Institute. Repin. In the third year, when there was a distribution master, he chose the I. E. Grabar. In the years of training a large influence on him Nikolai Punin.
On protection of diplomas in Repinka came the Director of the Rostov art school the Paul F. Ostaschenko and Mikhailov was invited to teach in Rostov-on-don.
"For more than thirty years, Herman p. was teaching in Rostov art College and did much for the development of art education in our region. Many artists don are proud to call themselves his disciples. His work, the memory of him as a person and artist is the pure spring, which always will last and who will always be remembered by people..." - Alexander Tokarev, 1989.