Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg (russian: Савелий Моисеевич Зейденберг; 28 April 1862 – 1942) was a Russian

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Biography

Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg was born on 28 April 1862 in

Berdychiv Berdychiv ( uk, Берди́чів, ; pl, Berdyczów; yi, באַרדיטשעװ, Barditshev; russian: Берди́чев, Berdichev) is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center ...

, in the

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate, r=Kievskaya guberniya; uk, Київська губернія, Kyivska huberniia (, ) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It wa ...

of the

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(present-day

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). He studied painting at the

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, graduating in 1891, by presenting the paintings "Joseph Sold by His Brothers" and "Moses Receiving the Tablets". Zeydenberg was active in the artistic circle founded in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

by Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. He was awarded distinctions at various exhibition in Russia, among which a gold medal in 1890 for the painting "Saint Peter Healing a Lame Man". In the following years, he presented several paintings depicting the live of the Jewish population in Russian provincial towns. In 1891 Zeydenberg was appointed

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at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Bibliography

Энциклопедия благотворительности Санкт-Петербурга - Общество Имени А. И. Куинджи

Зейденберг (Зайденберг) Савелий Моисеевич

Большая биографическая энциклопедия Зейденберг, С. М. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zeydenberg, Saveliy 1862 births 1942 deaths People from Berdychiv People from Kiev Governorate Ukrainian Jews Painters from the Russian Empire category:Soviet painters