Brodsky Isaac Izrailevich (1883 - 1939) (34 works)

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Brodsky Isaac Izrailevich - Russian and Soviet painter and graphic artist, teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1932), one of the main “official” court painters of the Kremlin in the early Soviet era, author of extensive visual Leninian works.

Isaac Brodsky was born on December 25, 1883 (January 6, 1884) in the village of Sofievka (at that time - Tauride province, now - Zaporozhye region of Ukraine), in the family of a small merchant and landowner. Since childhood, he showed a talent for painting. From 1896 to 1902 he studied at the Odessa Art School with L. D. Iorini, K. K. Kostandi and G. A. Ladyzhensky. Then he moved to St. Petersburg and continued his studies at the capital's Academy of Arts. For five years he studied at the Academy with I. E. Repin. In 1909-1911, with money from the Academy, he traveled around Germany, France, Spain and Italy, in particular, he visited M. Gorky on the island of Capri.

Before the October Revolution of 1917, Brodsky participated in exhibitions at the Academy of Arts, as well as the Association of South Russian Artists, and the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.

In February 1917, he painted a portrait of Kerensky, and after October 1917, turning 180 degrees, he began to paint portraits of Bolshevik leaders. For his cooperation with the Soviet government, the artist was given a huge apartment on Mikhailovskaya Square (now an apartment museum) and many privileges.

After the revolution, Brodsky became the official artist of the new government, just as J. L. David was the official artist of the first French republic. Brodsky worked a lot to create images of Soviet leaders, primarily V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin. In addition, Brodsky was involved in the reorganization of art education in the USSR. Since 1932 he was a professor, and since 1934. - Director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad. His students were A.I. Laktionov, Yu.M. Neprintsev, V.M. Oreshnikov, P.P. Belousov.

Brodsky died on August 14, 1939 in Leningrad. In the center of Leningrad (Sq. Arts, 3) a museum of the artist was created, in his honor in September 1940 Mikhailovskaya Street near Nevsky Prospekt was renamed (after Perestroika it was returned to its previous name).
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