Gersh Bentsionovich (Grigory Borisovich) Inger ( January 22, 1910 , Sarny , Lipovetsky District , Kiev Province , Russian Empire - February 11, 1995 , Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet artist known for his illustrations of the works of Sholom Aleichem . Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR .
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Biography
Origin
Gersh Inger was born in the town of Sarny ( Okhrimovo , Sarna), Lipovetsky district, Kiev province (now the Cherkasy region of Ukraine ) [1] .
He spent his childhood in Uman, where he attended a Jewish elementary religious school ( cheder ), and also took violin lessons.
In 1925 he moved to Kiev, where from 1926 to 1930 he studied at the Kiev Jewish Art and Industrial School under M. I. Epshteyn, under whose influence he took the artistic ideology of the Jewish modernism of the Cultures League.
Until the early 1930s, Inger worked mainly in a cubist manner.
Life in evacuation
During the Great Patriotic War in evacuation with his wife and daughter he lived in the village of New Klimovo of the Chuvash ASSR (he did not get to the front due to hearing loss), where he began anti-fascist cycles stretching for many years - “Babi Yar”, “Treblinki Stones”, "Last way".
In his diary in 1943, Inger wrote: "In the light of a smoke lamp, I copied Michelangelo's drawings, I could hardly move my fingers ... I worked with pleasure . " Inger searches for work in neighboring villages (from a diary entry dated December 23, 1943: “For the last two days I went to villages, looked for work ...” [2] ). Inger speaks of the villagers of the area: “They are balanced, calm. These can only be great philosophers - or children. Maybe this is the highest human wisdom? " . At this time, Inger is working on illustrations for the novel Sholom Aleichem , draws from life the neighbors' children, walks into the wood for wood [3] (from a diary entry dated February 25, 1944: “Today finished the illustrations for the novel Sholom Aleichem” ", Now I am working on an illustration of" Tevye the Milkman ". In my work, I am looking for salvation from heavy thoughts. We are going to Koltsovka village with my wife - twelve kilometers in cold, but I have to go. We were left without bread. Maybe for work we can get flour " [2] ).
In the spring of 1944, Inger worked on illustrations for Hamlet.
After the war
In 1944 he returned to Moscow.
Place of burial: Moscow, Vostryakovskoye cemetery (square 36-3, row 10, fence / sector 391).
Family
His wife is Inger Pesya Srulyevna (1916-1973).
Mother is buried (in the first half of the 1940s) in the village of New Klimovo of the Chuvash Republic. Brother died during World War II.
Heritage
The works of Gregory Inger are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, the Central Museum of Musical Culture. M. I. Glinka, the Museum of Cinema, the Art Gallery of Cheboksary, the Museum of Belgorod, the Jewish Museum in Paris, and also in private collections in Russia, the USA, Israel, and England. [four]
Literature
- Kazil Hillel. Artists Culture League. In memory of Gersh Bentsionovich Inger. Current research. Album. M. — Jerusalem: The Bridges of Culture — Gesharim, 2003 344 p., Ill.
- Sholem Aleichem. Stories for children. Illustrator: Hersh Inger. ISBN 5-93273-190-7 ; 2005
- Sholem Aleichem. Boy Motl. Illustrator: Hersh Inger. ISBN 5-250-06025-7 (err.) , 978-5-901599-72-3; 2007
- Sholem Aleichem. Tevier the milkman. Illustrator: Hersh Inger. 1946
- Filzer A. M. And the silver cord will be torn (About the artist Gershe Inger). // Most-Gesher , Moscow, № 3, 1995.
- Filzer A.M. “Jewish Artists in the Soviet Union: 1939–1991. From the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Jewish Art in Moscow ” , Jerusalem, 2008. The first book about Jewish national art in the post-war Soviet Union. The language of publication is Russian and English. The book contains 32 illustrations of works by G. Inger and an article about the artist.
- Filzer A.M. “Contemporary Jewish Art: Galut - Aliya - Eretz Israel”, Jerusalem, 2011. Language of the publication is Russian and English. The book contains the work of G. Inger "Hazan", 1962. Jewish religious themes were extremely rare in the works of artists in the Soviet period.
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Notes
- ↑ Inger
- ↑ 1 2 The tragedy of life and posthumous recognition // evreimir.com
- ↑ Inger Gregory Bentsionovich Archival copy dated July 26, 2012 on the Wayback Machine // vellum.ru
- ↑ On the centenary of the birth of G. B. Inger