Arseny Semionov was born on January 23, 1911 in the village of Maksimovo, Polotsk district of Vitebsk province. In 1937, Arseniy Semenov graduated from the Painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad. (workshop of Dmitry Kardovsky). From 1939 to 1944 Arseny Semionov was in the Red Army's armored forces. He rose from private to commander of a tank battalion. He was wounded five times, marked by military awards. Participated in exhibitions since 1938. From 1944 to 1947 Arseny Semionov taught at the High School of Arts at the Surikov Arts Institute in Moscow. In 1946 Semionov take in members of the Moscow organization of Soviet artists, he started to have participation in Moscow exhibitions. 1947 Arseny Semionov returned to Leningrad and received a lecturer at the faculty of general painting of the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Arts named after Vera Mukhina, where he worked for over forty years, nurtured several generations of artists. Member of the the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1947. He painted city and landscape landscapes, still-lifes, genre compositions, etudes from nature. He taught at the Penza Art College (1937-1939), the Moscow School of Artists (1944-1947), the Leningrad Mukhina Folk High School named after V. I. Mukhina (1947-1989). His personal Exhibitions were in Leningrad in 1966, 1977, and in Saint Petersburg in 2006. Works by Arseny Semyonov are in museums and private collections in Russia, France, the USA, Finland, Italy, Germany and other countries.
