Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein (russian: Самуи́л Григо́рьевич Невельште́йн; March 22, 1903, Herson, Russian Empire – November 16, 1983, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet, Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the representatives of the
Leningrad school of painting
The Leningrad School of Painting (russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was uni ...
, most known for his portraits of children and youth.
Biography
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein was born March 22, 1903, in
Herson
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,
Russian Empire
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(now in Ukraine).
In 1923 Samuil Nevelshtein came to Moscow and entered ''
VKhuTeMas'', which he had graduated in 1927.
In the same year Samuil Nevelshtein arrived in Leningrad and went outside of the competition in the ''VKhuTeIn'' (since 1932 -
Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). He studied with Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexei Karev.
In 1931 Samuil Nevelshtein graduated from
Proletarian Institute of Fine Arts (former ''VKhuTeIn''). His graduation work was genre painting named "Children's Holiday".
Since 1928 Samuil Nevelshtein has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, still lifes, worked in oil painting, watercolors, pencil drawing. Solo exhibitions by Samuil Nevelshtein were in Leningrad in 1944,
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
,
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
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1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
, and 1985 year. In 1935 he was admitted to the
Leningrad Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...
. The main theme of Samuil Nevelshtein paintings was the image of a young contemporary, leading genres - portraits and thematic painting.
Associate Isaac Brodsky, he gave a lot of energy to the organizing of children's art education in Leningrad, heading in the years 1935-1941 Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. In these years, Secondary Art School pupils were
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Yuri Tulin
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, Anatoli Levitin, Nikolai Kochukov, Iya Venkova,
Vladimir Chekalov
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Evgenia Antipova
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Victor Teterin,
Maya Kopitseva
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Abram Grushko
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Oleg Lomakin
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, and others, subsequently became well-known Leningrad artists and sculptors.
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein died on November 16, 1983, in Leningrad at the eighty-first year of life. Paintings by Samuil Nevelshtein reside in
State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, USA, France,
[''Peinture Russe. Catalogue.'' - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 Avril, 1991. - p.7,52.] China, Israel, England, Japan, and throughout the world.
See also
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Leningrad School of Painting
The Leningrad School of Painting (russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was uni ...
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List of Russian artists
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List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
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List of the Russian Landscape painters
This is a list of landscape painters of the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, and Russian Empire, both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes painters who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those born e ...
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Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...
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Academicheskaya Dacha
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References
Bibliography
* ''Irina Alexandrova. Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein''. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989. - 40 p.
* ''Peinture Russe. Catalogue.'' - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 Avril, 1991. - p. 7,52.
* ''Charmes Russes. Catalogue.'' - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 15 Mai 1991. - p. 37.
* ''Les Saisons Russes. Catalogue.'' - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 29 Novembre 1993. - p. 12.
* ''Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s''. - London: Izomar, 1998. , .
* ''Time for change. The Art of 1960-1985 in the Soviet Union''. - Saint Petersburg: State Russian Museum, 2006. - p. 154.
* ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 19, 20, 395, 385, 387-399, 401, 404, 405, 444. , .
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