Meer Moiseevich Akselrod, also Meyer Axelrod (1902–1970) (Russified form of the first name Mark) was a Belarusian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

best known for his

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s of

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life in the

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and the

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Life

Akselrod was born in

Maladzyechna Maladzyechna ( be, Маладзе́чна, Maladziečna, ; russian: Молоде́чно, Molodechno; pl, Mołodeczno) is a city in the Minsk Region of Belarus, an administrative centre of the Maladzyechna District (and formerly of the Maladz ...

. As a child, he survived a

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and moved to Russia during

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. In the 1920s, he studied and then taught at the VKhUTEMAS School of Art. His work was barely known outside the former Soviet Union until his daughter,

Elena Akselrod Elena Meerovna Akselrod ( rus, Еле́на Ме́еровна Аксельро́д, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə ˈmʲejɪrəvnə ɐksʲɪlʲˈrot, a=Elena Meerovna Akselrod.ru.oga; be, Алена Меераўна Аксельрод; born 1932 in Minsk, Bela ...

, published her father's biography and a representative collection of his works in

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 ...

in 1993.

References

* Georgy Fedorov. ''Meer Akselrod'', Moscow, Sovetskij khudozhnik, 1982, 134p.

External links

A web gallery of Akselrod's paintings
1902 births 1970 deaths People from Maladzyechna People from Vileysky Uyezd Belarusian Jews Belarusian male artists Jewish painters Vkhutemas alumni Academic staff of Vkhutemas 20th-century Belarusian painters 20th-century male artists Belarusian male painters 20th-century Belarusian male artists Male painters Soviet painters {{Belarus-painter-stub