Amsha Markovich Nuremberg ( 1887 , Elisavetgrad - 1979 , Moscow ) - Russian and Ukrainian Soviet artist, graphic artist, art critic, author of memoir prose.
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In 1904-1910 he studied painting at the Odessa Art College with Professor Kyriak Kostandi . After graduating from college, he went on to continue his education in Paris . He lived in the Latin Quarter among Russian artists. During the year, he shared one studio with M. Chagall in the phalanx “La ruche” (La ruche) .
In 1913 he returned to Odessa , where he headed the Independent group of the modernist movement and opened the Free Workshop school (1918). Participated in exhibitions of Odessa artists. After the revolution of 1917, he was appointed the first People's Commissar of Arts in Odessa, led the Committee for the Protection of Works of Art and Historic Buildings of the City.
Since 1920, he lived in Moscow, where he was the artistic correspondent of the newspaper Pravda , worked with V. Mayakovsky in the Windows of ROST, and was a professor of the history of Western painting at VKHUTEMAS . In 1927-29, he was sent by the People's Commissar of Education A. Lunacharsky to Paris to give lectures on Soviet art. In 1932 he participated in the organization of MOSSKh.
During the Second World War (1941-1943) he was evacuated to Tashkent (Uzbekistan). After the war, he worked in Moscow as an artist, including for the Museum of the Revolution.
Throughout his life, Nuremberg worked in different styles - from modernism to realism, always remaining true to the traditions of the Paris school .
Biography
April 21, 1887 - birth in the city of Elisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytsky , Ukraine), in a Jewish family. Parents are owners of a fish shop. Amshey is the eldest of 10 children.
1905 - graduation from a comprehensive school in Elizavetgrad, where drawing was taught by a student of Ilya Repin Feodosiy Kozachinsky.
1905-1911 - studying at the Odessa Art College in the class of Professor Kiriak Kostandi (inaccessible link) .
1911-1913 - staying in Paris, studying at private art academies, working as an art correspondent in the Russian-language social-democratic newspaper Parisian Herald . Throughout the year, a joint studio with Marc Chagall in the phalanx “La ruche” (La ruche) in the passage Danzig.
1913 - return to Elisavetgrad, teaching.
1915 - moving to Odessa, exhibition activity with a group of modernists, later called "Odessa Parisians". The Society of Independent Organizations, transformed in 1918 into the Association of Independent Artists.
1915 - marriage to the ballerina Polina Mamicheva (1894-1978).
1918 - foundation of the art studio "Free Workshop" together with the "Children's Academy". The teachers are artists who studied in France (Amshey Nuremberg, Sigismund Olesevich, Sandro Fazini, Theofil Fraerman, Isaac Malik). Among the students are Victor Midler (later the senior curator of the Department of Contemporary Russian Painting at the Tretyakov Gallery), the wife of Polina Mamicheva, Naum Sobol (theater artist).
1919 - People's Commissar of Arts of Odessa and head of the Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquities.
1919-1920 - editor-in-chief of the first Soviet newspaper in Elisavetgrad "Red Village".
1920 - moving to Moscow, working in the WINDOWS GROWTH together with Vladimir Mayakovsky , Ivan Malyutin and Mikhail Cheremnykh, making more than 200 posters.
1921 - the creation of the New Society of Painting (KNIFE) together with artists Alexander Gluskin, Samuel Adlivankin , George Ryazhsky, Mikhail Perutsky and others.
1921-1922 business trip to Uzbekistan with Victor Midler and Polina Mamicheva to organize restoration of historical and cultural monuments.
1922-1924 - professor of the history of Western painting at VKHUTEMAS .
1923 - the birth of the daughter of Nina (later the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR Nina Nelina).
1923-1925 - joint exhibitions with former members of the Jack of Diamonds group (1910-17) and writing a declaration for their new society, Moscow Painters, chaired by Pyotr Konchalovsky .
1924-1926 - the first art columnist for the newspaper Pravda.
1927-1929 - sending to Paris by the People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky as a "cultural ambassador" to lecture on Soviet art and write reports on French art for the Soviet press. Participation in the Paris "Autumn Salon" 1928
1930s - participation in the organization of the Union of Artists , work for the Museum of the Revolution, creative business trips to collective farms of Ukraine and the North Caucasus and to the mines of Kuzbass.
1941-1943 - evacuation to Tashkent in connection with the war. Work in the Uzbek Union of Artists.
1943 - return to Moscow. Work for the Museum of the Revolution.
1950s - retirement. Continuation of active painting and literary activities, including participation in exhibitions, writing memoirs and publishing in newspapers and magazines.
January 10, 1979 - death at the age of 91 in Moscow. Burial at the Vagankovsky cemetery .
Family
- Wife - ballerina and artist Polina Nikolaevna Mamicheva (1894-1978). Daughter - opera singer (coloratura soprano ), soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Nina Nelina ( Nelya Amsheevna Nurenberg , 1923 - 1966 ) - the wife of writer Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov ; their daughter (granddaughter of A.M. Nuremberg) is philologist Olga Yuryevna Tangyan (born 1951 ).
- Brother - artist David Devinov ( David Markovich Devinov-Nuremberg , 1896 - 1964 ), member of the associations Moscow painters , ROST Society of Moscow artists . His daughter (niece A.M. Nuremberg) - artist Aya Davydovna Semynina (born 1931); grandchildren - artist Elena Varshavchik (born 1969) and Sergey Varshavchik (born 1967), head of the editorial department of the RIA culture department.
- Brother - Yakov Markovich Nurenberg, head of the Moscow edition of the TASS newsreel.
- Nephew - Honored Artist of Russia Vitaly Orlovsky (born 1931).
Work in museums
Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery - 67 works, including paintings "The Bourgeois Bastard" (1929-30), "Dinner" (1930), "Social Contract" (1931)
Moscow, State Museum of Fine Arts A.S. Pushkin - 45 works
Moscow, Mayakovsky Museum - 14 works, including portraits of Mayakovsky of different years
Moscow, State Museum of Oriental Art - 69 works, Central Asian works of the 1920s and 1940s
Moscow, State Central Museum of Modern History of Russia (former Museum of the Revolution) - portraits of Lenin, works of revolutionary and antiwar themes
Moscow, Central Museum of the Armed Forces (former Museum of the Red Army) - painting "Happy Youth" (1936)
Kiev, National Art Museum of Ukraine - 39 works
Kropyvnytsky (Ukraine), Regional Art Museum - 102 works
Nukus (Uzbekistan), I.V. Savitsky State Museum of Art - about 60 works
Ramat Gan (Israel), Museum of Russian Art. M. and M. Tsetlinykh - about 20 works
Minneapolis (USA), Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) - 15 works
Exhibitions
1908, Odessa. Exhibition of the Association of South Russian Artists (TURX)
1913, Elisavetgrad. First Elizabethgrad Art Exhibition
1916, Odessa. Exhibition of the Society of Independent
1918, Odessa. Exhibition of the Association of Independent Artists
1919, Odessa. First national exhibition
1920, Odessa. Exhibition in memory of T. Shevchanko
1922, Moscow. Exhibition of the New Society of Painting (KNIFE)
1924, Moscow. Exhibition of drawings and watercolors in collaboration with Robert Falk and Alexander Shevchenko at the State Tsvetkovskaya Art Gallery
1927, Paris. Autumn Salon
1929, Moscow. The exhibition "GROWTH Satire Windows" in the Tretyakov Gallery
1932, Venice. Bienale
1939, Moscow. Socialism industry
1945, Moscow. Personal exhibition at the Central House of Writers (CDL)
1961, Moscow. Personal exhibition in the Moscow Union of Artists
1963, Odessa. Personal exhibition
1979 (posthumous), Moscow. Personal exhibition in the Moscow Union of Artists
1988, Moscow. Exhibition of the Nukus Museum at the Museum of Oriental Art
2004, Moscow. Exhibition of the brothers Amshey Nuremberg and David Devinov-Nuremberg in the gallery "Ark"
2006, Ramat Gan (Israel). Exhibition "Odessa Parisians" in the Museum of Russian Art. Tsetlins
2009, Odessa. Personal exhibition of graphic works at the World Odessa Club
2009, Kirovograd. Personal exhibition in the regional art museum
2010, Kiev. Exhibition of works of the Association of Independent Artists from the collection of Jacob Change. Museum of Arts named after Barbara and Bogdan Khanenko
Books
W. Midler and A. Nuremberg (1922) Samarkand and Tashkent . Moscow-Tashkent, Risol
A. Nuremberg (1924) Paul Cezanne . Moscow, VKHUTEMAS
A. Nuremberg (1969). Memories, meetings, thoughts about art . Moscow, Soviet artist
A. Nuremberg (2010) Odessa - Paris - Moscow. Memoirs of the artist. Preparation of the text, introductory article and biographical information of Olga Tangyan. Final article by Lesia Voyskun. Moscow, Bridges of Culture-Gesharim
Membership in Art Associations
1910, Odessa. Association of South Russian Artists (TURX)
1915-1918, Odessa. Society of Independent
1918-1919, Odessa. Association of Independent Artists
1921-1922, Moscow. New Society of Painting (KNIFE)
1926-1927, Moscow. Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AHRR)
1932-1979, Moscow. The Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists (MOSSH), later renamed the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists (MOSSH), the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (MOSH RSFSR) and the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (MOSH)
Sources
- A.M. Nurenberg (1969). Memories, meetings, thoughts about art . Moscow, Soviet artist
- Nuremberg A. Meetings with Babel / Amsha Nuremberg // Memories of Babel: 1938, 1939, 1940 / [comp. A.N. Pirozhkova, N.N. Yurgeneva] .- M .: Book Chamber, 1989.- p. 143 - 147.- ISBN 5-7000-0109-8
- A.M. Nurenberg (1994). The stories of the old artist. Time and Us (New York - Moscow), Nos. 124, 225-266 and 126, pp. 215-261
- Odessa Parisians. The works of modernist artists from the collection of Jacob Peremena (2006) . Museum of Russian Art, Ramat Gan, and Bridges of Culture Publishing House, Moscow
- A.M. Nurenberg (2007). Odessa - Paris - Moscow. Memoirs of the artist. Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya. Odessa almanac . Book 30, pp. 208-225
- A.M. Nurenberg (2010) Odessa - Paris - Moscow. Memoirs of the artist. Preparation of the text, introductory article and biographical information of Olga Tangyan. Final article by Lesia Voyskun. Moscow, Bridges of Culture-Gesharim
- Amshey Nuremberg, about him (2008) Maslovka - a town of artists
- O. Tangyan (2009). "Odessa Parisian" A. Nuremberg. Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya. Odessa almanac . Book 37, pp. 182–206
- A. Nuremberg (1960s). Meetings with Babel Librarian
- Trooper Lesya . Nuremberg Amsha Markovich // Encyclopedia of the Russian avant-garde : Fine Art. Architecture / Compiled by V. I. Rakitin , A. D. Sarabyanov ; Scientific editor A.D. Sarabyanov. - M .: RA, Global Expert & Service Team, 2013. - T. II: Biographies. L — I. - S. 198-199 . - ISBN 978-5-902801-11-5 .