Arseny Semenov (1911-1992) - Soviet artist, painter, teacher, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.

From 1927 he lived in Leningrad, worked as a laborer, at the same time painting and drawing with the famous artist and teacher A. R. Eberling. In 1930 he became a student at the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (INPII), which in 1932 was transformed into the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Semenov was lucky enough to study in 1934-1937. in the workshop of D. N. Kardovsky. The classes and the very personality of the outstanding teacher had a great influence on the fate of the young artist, and his pedagogical methods and views will be deeply perceived by Semenov in his own teaching work, to which he will devote almost half a century.

In 1937 he was sent as a teacher at the Penza Art College. In 1938, Semenov was accepted as a member of the Penza Organization of Soviet Artists.

From 1944 to 1947 Semenov taught at the Secondary Art School at the Moscow Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. In 1946 he was accepted as a member of the Moscow Organization of Soviet Artists.

In 1947, Semenov returned to Leningrad and became a teacher at the Department of General Painting of the Higher Art and Industrial School named after V.I. Mukhina, where he worked for over forty years, educating several generations of artists. In the same year he was accepted as a member of the Leningrad Organization of Soviet Artists.

Throughout his life, Semenov combined teaching and creative work. He painted urban and landscape landscapes, still lifes, genre compositions, portraits, numerous sketches from nature, made creative trips.

Works are in art museums in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.