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Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein (Russian: Михаил Давидович Бернштейн) (28 January 1875, Rostov-on-Don – 9 May 1960, Leningrad) was a Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, who played an important role in the formation of the Leningrad School of Painting.




Biography


Mikhail Bernshtein was born on 28 January 1875 in Rostov-on-Don. He studied painting and drawing in London (1894–1899), Munich, Paris (1899–1901), visited Italy. In 1901-1903 Bernshtein studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he was a student of Ilya Repin.
Since 1902 Mikhail Bernshtein begins to participate in art exhibitions. In 1907-1916 he taught in Saint Petersburg, where he hold private art school. He was married to artist Catherine Turova. In 1916-1924 he taught at art school in Zhitomir, in 1924–1932 at the Kyiv Art Institute. In 1932-1948 Bernshtein taught drawing in the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad. He wrote several articles and tutorials on drawing, as well as the book «Problems of teaching drawing». In 1948-1950 he taught also in Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art.
In 1930-1940 Mikhail Bernshtein made a great contribution to the system of Soviet Art education and artistic training of highly qualified young artists. During the Great Patriotic War his son Sandro went to the front as soldier and was missing.




Pupils


Evgenia Baykova
Piotr Belousov
Ivan Cherinko
Alexander Debler
Vera Ermolaeva
Mikhail Kozell
Vladimir Lebedev
Sarra Lebedeva
Felix Lembersky
Nikolai Mukho
Mikhail Natarevich
Lev Orekhov
Sergei Osipov
Maria Rudnitskaya
Gleb Savinov
Nadezhda Shteinmiller
Elena Skuin
Alexander Sokolov
Vladimir Tatlin
Nikolai Timkov
Yuri Tulin
Piotr Vasiliev
Anatoli Vasiliev
Vecheslav Zagonek
and others




See also


Leningrad School of Painting
List of 20th-century Russian painters
List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists




References






Sources


Бернштейн М. Проблемы учебного рисунка. Л., 1940.
Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1. М., Искусство, 1970. С.383.
Александр Иванович Савинов. Письма. Документы. Воспоминания. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. C.45, 47, 49, 50, 67, 87, 151, 154, 287.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Isaak Brodsky
• Mikhail Bernshtein
• Bernstein
• Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
• Isaak Brodsky
• Imperial Academy of Arts
• Kazimir Malevich
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of Jews born in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• List of people from Rostov-on-Don
• Leningrad painting of 1950–1980s (Saint Petersburg, 1994)