Meer Akselrod(1902 - 1970)
Meer Akselrod
The name of artist Meer Akselrod is known far outside Russia. His graphic works are stored and exhibited, alongside with Russian Museum (Sankt Petersburg) and A. S. Pushkin Museum (Moscow), in twelve state galleries of Russia, and also a number of foreign museums, for example New York The Classic Art Institute (Brooklin Museum).
Meer Akselrod, the representative of Vitebsk school of painting, pupil of Jehuda Pen, friend of Mark Shagal was born in 1902.
In 1921 he debuted with thirty six works at an exhibition of the Belarus artists in Minsk. Then - Moscow's VHUTEMAS-VHUTEIN - he is the student, and after the leaving of course - the teacher. In a part of group "4 arts" and later "OST" he was exposed worldwide with such remarkable Russian artists as K. Korovin, Kupriyanov, Labas, Tyshler and Sternberg.
Meer Akselrod illustrated books of Sholom Aleikhem, Kvitko, and Babel, made out performances of the Belarus and Ukrainian theatres.
Within "triumphing socialist realism", defamed and forgotten, he continued to work, not being exposed anywhere.
Meer Akselrod died in Moscow on January, 10, 1970.
In his creative heritage there are remarkable works as gouache: landscapes, portraits, still-lifes, and genre stages.
The author of "The history of Russian art" M. Alpatov fairly writes: "… In time, Akselrod's art will be recognized as that of major artist of our age…"