Eduard Arkadevich Steinberg (russian: Эдуа́рд Арка́дьевич Ште́йнберг; 3 March 1937 – 28 March 2012)
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Personal life
Steinberg was born in Moscow
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, the son of poet, translator and artist .[ He had residences in Tarusa (Kaluga region) and Paris.][ His wife, Galina Iosifovna Manevich, is a Russian art critic, author and essayist.
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Career
Steinberg began his career drawing live models and landscapes and later switched to "metaphysical still lifes".
In the 1960–1980s Steinberg participated in the dissident movement in the USSR, which supported freedom of expression in arts and basic human rights.
Steinberg became Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
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. Taking from the hands of Zurab Tsereteli
Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli ( ka, ზურაბ კონსტანტინეს ძე წერეთელი, russian: Зураб Константинович Церетели; born 4 January 1934) is a Georgian-Russian painter, ...
a medal on a red ribbon, Steinberg said:«ДИ» / «Art Dialogs»: The Moscow Museum of Modern Art’s magazine; Nº 04, 2008
, p. 80-81. / «From Underground to the Academy».
He also was Chevalier of the Order of Friendship (2008).[
Steinberg died at his home in ]Paris
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from pneumonia on 28 March 2012.[
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Selected exhibitions
* 1992 : , Josef-Albers-Museum in Bottrop, Germany
* 1995 : , Bochum, Germany
* 1999 : Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen
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With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is on ...
* 2000 : , Ludwigshafen
* 2004 : State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
* 2005
«Eduard Steinberg, Das Leben eines Dreiecks (Gouachen und Gemälde) 1970-2004»
Galerie Sandmann, Berlin
* 2005
«Russia!»
— Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
* 2009
Edik Steinberg at Gallery Claude Bernard, Paris (14 May - 27 June 2009)
* 2011—2012 : «Passion Bild», Kunstmuseum Bern
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* 2012
Religiöse Motive in der inoffiziellen Kunst der Sowjetunion
References
External links
Painter Eduard Steinberg working, VIDEO by G. Bastianelli, 5 min. 40 sec.
Artist's Biography, Museum references, 133 Auction records on the AskArt
Eduard Steinberg on the ArtOfTheRussias
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Bilder von Eduard Steinberg
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20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
21st-century Russian painters
Abstract painters
1937 births
2012 deaths
Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts
Russian contemporary artists
20th-century Russian male artists
21st-century Russian male artists