Andrei Kushnir
(born 1947)
Andrei Kushnir is active/lives in Maryland, Virginia. Andrei Kushnir is known for landscape, marine, western and still life painting.
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Biography Andrei Kushnir
Andrei Kushnir was born in Regensburg, Germany in 1947, and grew up in Scott, Mississippi and Chicago, Illinois. Always interested in art, he was a cartoonist for the Chicago Illini, student newspaper of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. After experimenting with various media, he started painting in oils in 1980, and quickly discovered the joys of painting landscapes outdoors, en plein air. Essentially self-taught, he also took lessons with artists Michael Francis, at the Alexandria, Viriginia Art League, and Michele Taylor, his first dealer in Washington, DC.
The artist developed a naturalistic, realist style, and painted in every type of weather, focusing on the Potomac River and C&O Canal, both near his Mary
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