Biography of Odessa artists

Pasternak on April 3 in Odessa in a large Jewish family of the Container of the In inn, Joseph Pasternak and his wife Leah, the son of Itshok-Laib, the future artist Leonid Pasternak, was born. The grandfather of Izhok Isaac Akiva Pasternak came to Odessa from Galicia at the beginning of the 19th century; In the year, he had a son Joseph, who eventually became the head of a large family and the owner of an inn near the new market on Kobblevskaya, the non -president house was on the odd side of the street between Olgievskaya and Konnaya.

Joseph Pasternak sought to give his children an education, and the young Isaac entered the prestigious Richelian gymnasium. He studied successfully, but he was increasingly attracted by drawing, the abilities for which were manifested in early childhood. Later, one of the guards of the father is a journalist and publisher M. You seem to be drawing? Will you come to me for a moment?

.. The young artist was scared and began to deny it. I’m even pissing you off the key so that you, what good, do not run away to my arrival! Well done! After all, I turned to our two real artists - the devil knows what happened! But I have already been announced about the release of the first number, but I have nothing yet, God sent you to me - we will go with you!

While still a gymnasium student of the eighth grader, I became a real artistic officer of the Mayak magazine, and then the Bee. In the city, in any case, for a novice artist, work in magazines was useful practice. In the year, Leonid Pasternak graduated from the Richelian gymnasium and the Odessa drawing school of the Society of Fine Arts, studied with F. Bauer and L. in the year, submitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Gviz, but the attempt was unsuccessful due to the lack of a free training place.

In the year, Leonid Pasternak switched to the law faculty, which he graduated from extermin in Odessa at the University of Novorossiysk, he continued the art education in parallel. In gg. Sorokina; in gg. Gertherich and A. Lisse-Mayer graduated from the gold medal. Then I had to spend a year in Odessa artillery barracks, serving military service. In the year, L. Pasternak went to Munich again, spent some time at the academy.

Returning home, he wrote a portrait of the niece of Augustine Yakubson, the daughter of the sister of Katya and her husband of the merchant of the 2nd guild of Leonthia Yakubson, the canvas was introduced into scientific circulation to the Odessa regionalist S. in February, the wedding took place in Moscow; Shortly before the marriage, the first creative success came - P.

Pasternak - the constant exhibit of TPHV. In addition to the elder, Boris, the Pasternaks spouses were born Alexander, Josephine and Lydia, wife and children, throughout the whole creative path, were the beloved models of the master about Leonid Pasternak, jokingly, said that his children feed their parents, hinting at his successes in the image of children's life. In Moscow L.

Polenov, K. Korovin, I. Levitan, V. Serov, A. Arkhipov, S. Vinogradov, M. Nesterov and other artists. In con. In the year, the artist met illustrations for the collected works of M. in a mobile exhibition at a mobile exhibition, the artist got acquainted with L. during his first visit to the writer to Khamovniki L. The drawings brought Tolstoy in delight. At the same time, he planned at the first opportunity to invite Pasternak to cooperate.

Tolstoy in his house in Khamovniki and in the estate of Yasnaya Polyana; He performed portraits of the writer and members of his family. How to convey the bliss I tested by me, when once, in a conversation with me, N. On the eve of the exams, L. Tolstoy in a family circle in the year of L. Pasternak visited Europe with a group of South Russian artists, including K. Kostandy, P.

Nilus, G. Golovkov, A. Stilianudi, and GG. In the year, the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts L. Pasternak was awarded the title of academician. From a year as a year, Professor L., his students were M. Saryan, S. Gerasimov, V. Perelman, B. Takke, V. Strandi and others. In addition to teaching, the artist worked in these years on portraits of contemporaries; They were captured on paper and canvas writers M.

Gorky, V. Bryusov, Vyach. Ivanov, K. Balmont, E. Verkharn, S. An -sky, M. Gershenzon, composers A. Skryabin, S. Rachmaninov, singer F. Chaliapin, microbiologist I. Mechnikov, English director G. Craig, Prince P. Kropotkin and many others. Leonid Pasternak had a reputation as one of the best drawers and portraitists of his time. The artist managed to preserve the sensation of fixation in picturesque works - by choosing the most acute moment, as if of an accidental movement that reveals the image.

And although Pasternak is often called the Russian impressionist, this is more correct in relation to the manner of the master than his method and style. So, pastels are more gravitated to impressionism, while the front portraits find the features of the modern style. With his wife and sons in the first post -revolutionary years, L. Pasternak participated in a number of exhibitions; He worked in the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquities under the Moscow Council.

Life in the capital was difficult, and Leonid Osipovich and Rosalia Isidorovna needed a treatment, which was impossible to get in Moscow. In the year they left for Germany.In February-March, Boris Pasternak visited his parents in Berlin. During this visit, Leonid Osipovich created his last and, perhaps, one of the best drawings of the eldest son is currently stored in the GTG.

At the beginning of the year, L. Pasternak took part in the historical and ethnographic expedition in Palestine, organized by the Parisian publisher A. From this trip, the artist brought dozens of drawings and sketches, some of which were supposed to be included in a two -volume monograph on Palestine. Self -portrait with his wife in Germany Leonid Osipovich continued his gallery of celebrities.

Here they made portraits of artists M. Lieberman and L. Korinta, writers A. Remizov and G.