Artist Altman Biography

Nathan Altman created near the paintings of a different genre, his creative range was unusually wide. Nathan Isaevich Altman possessed the rare quality - innate professionalism. Thanks to the extremely sensitive perception of the world, he ardently picked up the actual artistic ideas of his time. Nathan Altman. When the child was 4 years old, his father died of consumption. Tired of the need, the mother moved abroad, and left her son to her grandmother.

Despite the vicissitudes of fate, Nathan Altman graduated from both the Russian elementary school and Heder. From childhood, he had a craving for drawing, so he went to Odessa in an art school in Odessa.

There, the young man was engaged in painting and sculpture at the same time. Disappointed with the presentation of the material, the young man left the educational institution ahead of schedule and returned home to Vinnitsa. During this period, the first cycle of portraits “Lady on the balcony”, “Grandmother” was created. At first, the artist perceived the colors only as the “self -portrait” of the year, but soon his smears will compact and acquire magical possibilities: constructing form and volumetric modeling.

In the fall of the year, Nathan Altman returns to his homeland, to Vinnitsa, where he writes self -portraits and plots on Jewish topics. There he works on the paintings in the original manner, tries his hand in the applied schedule of posters, advertising, takes part in the exhibitions of avant -garde players and quickly gains fame. The main masterpiece created in the year - the portrait of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova - becomes a real sensation: critic Lev Aleksandrovich Bruni called this work “Milestone in Art”.

The genius was able to feel the spirit of the times: he welcomed the exit of art from the salons in the square, on the streets to the wide masses and expanded the range of his activities - he taught, printed in newspapers and magazines, led the creation of museums, painted dishes, made sketches of stamps, posters, and emblem. Color volumes and planes ”, in the city of Nathan Isaevich moves to Moscow.

From Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, he receives an important task - to create a portrait of Lenin. Using pencil sketches from nature made in the personal account of Vladimir Ilyich, the master score a realistic bronze sculpture of the leader of the world proletariat. And in the city, remaining in his soul a free anarchist, Altman increasingly began to use non -traditional materials in his work.

In OM, during a tour of Europe, Nathan Altman and his wife decided to stay in Paris. Here, avant -garde gave way to neorealism. Standing to write with oil, the painter showed himself to be a brilliant colorist. The Kremlin power did not recall his emigration, but because of the ideological press, the artist departed from easel painting and devoted himself to design, book illustrations, decorations for performances.

The master died on December 12 in Leningrad and was buried in Komarovo, near the grave of Anna Akhmatova. The most famous paintings by Nathan Isaevich Altman's painting by Nathan Altman are painted in an impeccably artistic, easily perceived form. Among his best works: “Self -portrait” - the work written in Vinnitsa is done in vanguard, close to cubism and futurism, style. Akhmatova ” - the picture reveals all the greatness and drama of the fate of the famous contemporary of the author.

She was and remains a symbol of the Russian avant -garde. Labor ” - a large -scale panel, a magnificent example of poster painting of the 10ths of the last century.