Alexei Eremeevich Karev (1879, Shilovka – 1942, Leningrad) was a Russian painter and graphic artist.
Karev studied icon-painting studio under Fyodor Korneyev in Saratov in 1896 and then until 1898 he attended the Alexei Bogolyubov School of Drawing there, before moving to Penza where he studied under Konstantin Savitsky at the Nikolai Seliverstov School of Art.
Alongside Nathan Altman and Aleksandr Matveyev he was on the Commission of the Museum of Artistic Culture which in December 1918 set out to draw up a list of 143 painters whose work they wished to acquire for the museum.
[2] He was responsible for transforming the existing schools of art into Svomas, state free art studios, in Penza (1919) and Saratov (1920–21) (where he also taught), and the Central School of Technical Drawing (1921–22).
[1] From 1922 until 1941 he taught at Vkhutein (Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the All-Russian Academy of Arts), being appointed professor in 1940.