Mushail Mushailov (russian: Мушаил Ханухович Мушаилов, he, מושאיל מושאילוב; born July 10, 1941 — January 4, 2007) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...

n artist and teacher of

Mountain Jewish Mountain Jews or Caucasus Jews also known as Juhuro, Juvuro, Juhuri, Juwuri, Juhurim, Kavkazi Jews or Gorsky Jews ( he, יהודי קווקז ''Yehudey Kavkaz'' or ''Yehudey he-Harim''; russian: Горские евреи, translit=Gorskie Yevrei ...

descent. He was a member of the

USSR Union of Artists The Artists' Union of the USSR (russian: Союз художников СССР, translit=Soyuz khudozhnikov SSSR) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and art critics embracing the Republics of the Soviet Union. The Union was founded starte ...

and

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

.Died Mushail Khanukhovich Mushailov
/ref> He was also a laureate of the

State Prize of the USSR The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

Biography

Mushailov was born in

Derbent Derbent (russian: Дербе́нт; lez, Кьвевар, Цал; az, Дәрбәнд, italic=no, Dərbənd; av, Дербенд; fa, دربند), formerly romanized as Derbend, is a city in Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea. It ...

, Dagestan USSR. In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art College of the Memory of 1905 and in 1973 from V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute. For many years Mushailov taught art at the Makhachkala Pedagogical Institute at the Department of Fine Arts and was the executive secretary of the Artists' Union of Dagestan. In 1994 Mushail Mushailov with his family immigrated to Israel. There he continued to work, taking part in various exhibitions; he painted pictures associated with Jewish themes. After eight years, in 2002, the artist left Israel and returned to

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. He taught drawing, painting and composition at the Moscow State Academic Art College of the Memory of 1905 and in the V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute. Serious illness crippled the health of the artist, and in January 2007, Mushail Mushailov, died. Before his death, Mushailov asked his daughters to be buried in Israel. His daughters fulfilled his request. The artist is buried in the cemetery in the town of

Yavne Yavne ( he, יַבְנֶה) or Yavneh is a city in the Central District of Israel. In many English translations of the Bible, it is known as Jabneh . During Greco-Roman times, it was known as Jamnia ( grc, Ἰαμνία ''Iamníā''; la, Iamnia) ...

Artwork

Paintings ''"Ballad of a Soldier - Memories"'' and ''"Mothers’ Black Shawls"'', were dedicated to the theme of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. Numbers of his works are in Russia, foreign museums and in private collections in Russia, Israel and Canada.Mushailov’s family During the artist’s lifetime and posthumously there were written articles about Mushailov’s art. The author of the book ''"Art of the Soviet Dagestan"'' wrote: Another article ''"Big Love to the Great Art"'' wrote:

Awards

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

. * Honored Artist of Dagestan. * State Prize of the Republic of Dagestan.

Gallery

File:Street in the city of Derbent.jpg, Street in the city of Derbent (1994) File:NarynKala.jpg, The Derbent fortress "Naryn-Kala" (1994) File:TheGirlWithApple.jpg, The Girl with Apple – Portret of Lyana, a youngest daughter (1994) File:Yuliya.jpg, Yuliya – Portrait on the background of Jerusalem (1994) File:RasulGamzatov.jpg, The Cranes – Portret of Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov (1998) File:Holiday Lag BaOmer.jpg, Holiday Lag BaOmer (1999) File:Oleg Fetliher and Yitzhak Blanshteyn.jpg, Oleg Fetliher and Yitzhak Blanshteyn (1999) File:TelAviv-Jaffa.jpg, The landscape of Tel Aviv - "Jaffa" (1999) File:TheRoadProcessionInJerusalem.jpg, The Road Procession in Jerusalem – I (2000) File:TheRoadProcessionInJerusalem1.jpg, The Road Procession in Jerusalem – II (2000) File:TheGreaterBurdock.jpg, The Greater Burdock (2005) File:HollyBabaSali.jpg, Holly Baba Sali

References

External links

To the Memory of Artist
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