Savelii Yakovlevich Mitelman (Russian: Савелий Яковлевич Мительман); (3 January 1940 – 21 December 2004) was a Russian painter.
Biography
He was born in
Lyubertsy,
Moscow Oblast
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and lived in
Moscow
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. Savelii Mitelman was a representative of the
underground.
He graduated from the
Moscow Textile Institute, the faculty of Applied Arts in 1966. His original creative style became noticeable in the beginning of seventies. In 1974 he took part in the exhibitions of
nonconformists in
Izmailovsky park and Belyayevo (the so-called
Bulldozer Exhibition). In 1979 he entered the Joint Committee of graphic artists (it was subsequently transformed to the International Federation of Artists of
UNESCO
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) and since then he had participated in the art life of this organization regularly. He was close to the Moscow underground art though did not belong to any particular group of it.
The first show of his works (slide-film) took place in 1985 in the House of Arts of VTO (Society of actors) in Shelykovo. His first personal exhibition (1986) in Malaya Gruzinskaya street, 28 was very successful. The number of his personal exhibitions exceeded thirty. He participated in the international salons in Moscow and
Barcelona
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. His works were present at painting auctions in
Gdańsk
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,
London
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, and
New York City
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. He did not adhere to any aesthetic direction though every his painting had its certain concept. The style problem had never been principal for him.
Some of his largest shows were: exhibitions of the International Federation in "
Manezh"; exhibition of the Associations "Ecology" and "Memories of victims of
Stalinism
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" in Central House of Artists (CHA, Crymsky Val street); "The golden brush" - 1997, 1998, 1999.
His works are kept in galleries and private collections of about 30 countries including the State Central Museum of modern history of Russia (6 works), Museum of
Mayakovsky (Moscow), Museum "Aleksanrovskaya Sloboda" in
Aleksandrov, the gallery "Creativity Union" (Moscow, 43 works).
He is buried in
Moscow, Russia
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in the
Mitinskoe Cemetery).
Personal exhibitions
* 1990, January - in Kuntsevo showroom;
* 1990 - Gdańsk, "Decline of idea";
* 1992 - gallery "Inter-Mars";
* 1994 September–October - the Union-Gallery;
* 1995 March–April - gallery Ostozhenka;
* 1995 August – CHA;
* 1996 - 2000 - five exhibitions in the gallery "Creativity Union".
* 1998 July–August – CHA;
* 2000 January - gallery Ramenki;
* 2000 March - Taganka, showroom;
* 2001 September – CHA;
* 2001 – Barcelona;
References
The book. Савелий Мительман. М.: МБА, 2009. 130 с.
External links
Artist’s memorial site
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
Jewish painters
Jewish Russian artists
1940 births
2004 deaths
20th-century Russian male artists
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