Maria Merkulieva
✦ Internationally Exhibited
✦ Held in Private Collections Worldwide
✦ Member of the Union of artists of the USSR
Born on July 25, 1904, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Graduated from the Leningrad Art and Industrial Technical School in 1927, where she studied under Vladimir Kuznetsov. She lived and worked in Alupka, Crimea.
She worked primarily in easel painting. Working in a realistic style, she created landscapes, still lifes, thematic compositions, and portraits.
Among her notable works are M. Gorky in Crimea (1946), Crimean Grapes, and Crimean Autumn (1960), among others.
Participated in regional, republican, and all-Union art exhibitions since 1940. Her works have also been exhibited internationally and are held in private collections worldwide.
Since 1940, participated in regional, republican, all-Union, and international art exhibitions.