Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (; October 20, 1911 – July 26, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in
Leningrad
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(now Saint-Petersburg), and who belonged to the
Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for his landscape painting.
Biography
Kozell was born October 20, 1911, in
Astrakhan
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. In 1939 Kozell graduated from
Ilya Repin Institute in
Isaak Brodsky workshop. Pupil of
Mikhail Bernshtein,
Arcady Rylov,
Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov.
Since 1949 Kozell participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre pictures, sketches from the life.
Kozell was a member of the
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1962. In 1948-1991 Kozell worked as an art teacher of Secondary Art School of
Ilya Repin Institute in Leningrad.
Kozell died on July 26, 1993, in
Saint Petersburg
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at 82 years of age. Paintings by Kozell reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, U.S., England, Japan,
[''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154.] and throughout the world.
See also
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Leningrad School of Painting
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List of Russian artists
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List of 20th-century Russian painters
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List of the Russian Landscape painters
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Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
References
Bibliography
*''Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue''. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. -p. 14.
*''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154.
*''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1978. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1978. - р.58.
*''Mikhail Kozell. Painting. Drawings. Exhibition of works. Catalogue''. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989.
*''Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s''. - London: Izomar, 1998. , .
*''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 15, 20, 361, 390, 392, 394–398, 400–405, 445. , .
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1911 births
1993 deaths
People from Astrakhan
People from Astrakhan Governorate
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists
Socialist realist artists
Leningrad School artists
Repin Institute of Arts alumni
20th-century Russian male artists