Georgy Nissky (Russia, 1903-1987) oil on cardboard winter landscape painting titled Podmoskovye on back. Signed lower center. Framed. Georgy Nissky was a prominent Soviet painter and a founder of the severe style. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1965 and won a third degree Stalin Prize in 1951. In 2019, an exhibition of his work was held at the Institute of Russian Realist Art.