Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein (russian: Михаил Давидович Бернштейн) (January 28, 1875,

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East ...

– May 9, 1960,

Leningrad 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 ...

) was a Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, professor of the

Repin Institute of Arts Repin (russian: Ре́пин; masculine) or Repina (; feminine) is a Russian last name. It is derived from the sobriquet ''"репа"'' ("turnip") and may refer to the following people: *Ilya Repin (1844–1930), Ukrainian and Russian painter * Niko ...

, who played an important role in the formation of the

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Biography

Mikhail Bernshtein was born January 28, 1875, in

. He studied painting and drawing in London (1894–1899), Munich, Paris (1899–1901), visited Italy. In 1901-1903 Bernshtein studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he was a student of

Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...

. Since 1902 Mikhail Bernshtein begins to participate in art exhibitions. In 1907-1916 he taught in Saint Petersburg, where he hold private art school. He was married to artist Catherine Turova. In 1916-1924 he taught at art school in

Zhitomir Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative ...

, in 1924–1932 at the

Kyiv Art Institute Kyiv Art Institute (KHI) uk, Київський художній інститут, russian: Киевский художественный институт (1924-1930) was the Ukrainian state art and technical high school which is the historical inh ...

. In 1932-1948 Bernshtein taught drawing in the

in Leningrad. He wrote several articles and tutorials on drawing, as well as the book «Problems of teaching drawing». In 1948-1950 he taught also in Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art. In 1930-1940 Mikhail Bernshtein made a great contribution to the system of Soviet Art education and artistic training of highly qualified young artists. During the

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his son Sandro went to the front as soldier and was missing.

Pupils

* Evgenia Baykova *

Piotr Belousov Piotr Petrovich Belousov (russian: Пётр Петро́вич Белоу́сов; May 3, 1912 – March 31, 1989) was a Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist, painter, art teacher, professor of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, S ...

* Ivan Cherinko * Alexander Debler * Vera Ermolaeva *

Mikhail Kozell Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Ко́зелл; October 20, 1911 – July 26, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), and who ...

* Vladimir Lebedev *

Sarra Lebedeva Sarra Dmitrievna Lebedeva (December 11 (23), 1892 – March 7, 1967) was a Soviet sculptor, mainly of portraits, but also of statuettes, figures for porcelain and delft ware. Life Born Sara Darmolatova into a wealthy Saint Petersburg family, ...

Felix Lembersky Felix Samoilovich Lembersky (russian: link=no, Феликс Самойлович Лемберский) (November 11, 1913 – December 2, 1970) was a Ukrainian/Soviet painter, artist, teacher, theater stage designer and an organizer of artis ...

* Nikolai Mukho * Mikhail Natarevich *

Lev Orekhov Lev Nikolaevich Orekhov (russian: Ле́в Никола́евич Оре́хов; November 8, 1913, city of Tula, Moscow Region of the Russian Empire – November 6, 1992, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian Soviet painter, who lived and ...

* Sergei Osipov *

Maria Rudnitskaya Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya (russian: Мари́я Леони́довна Рудни́цкая; June 17, 1916 – January 1, 1983) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was ...

Gleb Savinov Gleb Savinov (russian: Гле́б Алекса́ндрович Сави́нов; September 27, 1915, Natalievka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – November 5, 2000, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet, Russian painter and art tea ...

* Nadezhda Shteinmiller *

Elena Skuin Elena Petrovna Skuin (russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Скуи́нь, lv, Jeļena Skujiņa; April 2, 1908, Ekaterinodar, Russian Empire – 1986, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian–Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, a ...

* Alexander Sokolov *

Vladimir Tatlin Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin ( – 31 May 1953) was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, w ...

Nikolai Timkov Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (russian: Тимко́в Никола́й Ефи́мович; August 12, 1912 – December 25, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Sai ...

Yuri Tulin Yuri Nilovich Tulin (russian: Ю́рий Ни́лович Ту́лин; August 14, 1921 in Maksatikha village, Tver Province, Soviet Russia – April 27, 1988 in Leningrad, USSR) -was a Soviet Russian painter and Honored Artist of the Russian F ...

Piotr Vasiliev Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev (russian: Пё́тр Константи́нович Васи́льев; January 26, 1909 – June 9, 1989) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad U ...

Anatoli Vasiliev Anatoli Ilych Vasiliev (russian: Анато́лий Ильи́ч Васи́льев; 18 March 1917 – 4 June 1994) was a Russian and Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Art ...

Vecheslav Zagonek Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek (russian: Вячесла́в Фра́нцевич Заго́нек; December 19, 1919 – June 24, 1994) was a Soviet, Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, wh ...

* and others''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.356-358, 360, 361, 365, 367, 368, 370, 371, 373.

References

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* ''Бернштейн М. Проблемы учебного рисунка''. Л., 1940. * ''Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1.'' М., Искусство, 1970. С.383. * ''Александр Иванович Савинов. Письма. Документы. Воспоминания''. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. C.45, 47, 49, 50, 67, 87, 151, 154, 287. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernshtein, Mikhail 1875 births 1960 deaths Artists from Rostov-on-Don People from Yekaterinoslav Governorate Russian Jews 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters 20th-century Russian painters Soviet painters Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists Leningrad School artists 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian male artists

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