- Isaak Brodsky
Isaak Ivanovich Izrailevich Brodervskiy ( _ru. Исаак Израилевич Бродский, OldStyleDateDY|6 January|1884|25 December 1883 -
August 14 ,1939 ,Leningrad ) was aSoviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement ofsocialist realism . He is known for his iconic portrayals ofLenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of theRussian Civil War andBolshevik Revolution .Brodskiy was born in the village of
Sofiyevka inUkraine . He studied atOdessa Art Academy and theImperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1916 he joined the Jewish Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. When Brodskiy askedLenin to autograph his painting "Lenin", he said: "I am signing to what I don't agree with for the first time". [ [http://www.stoletie.ru/cgi-bin/email.cgi?data=040914170030&rubrica=101 Stoletie.ru] ]Brodskiy was on good terms with many leading Russian painters, including his mentor,
Ilya Repin . He was an avid art collector who donated numerous first-class paintings to museums in his native Ukraine and elsewhere. His superb art collection included important works by Repin,Vasily Surikov ,Valentin Serov ,Isaak Levitan ,Mikhail Vrubel , andBoris Kustodiev . After his death Brodsky's apartment on Arts Square in St. Petersburg was declared a national museum. His art collection is still on exhibit there. [ [http://www.rah.ru/content/ru/main_menu_ru/section-museum_activity/section-museum_departments/museum-2005-02-02-13-44-10.html Webpage of the Isaak Brodsky Museum] .]Brodskiy was an Honoured Artist of the
Russian SFSR and a member of the Union of Russian Artists. He was the first painter to be awarded theOrder of Lenin . [ [http://www.mjcc.ru/Galereia_MEOC/Brodskii_Isaak/index.html MJCC.ru] ] In 1934 he was appointed Director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. His memoirs were published posthumously.References
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