Mandelberg, Evgeny Moiseevich

Born in Kiev in the family of Moses Yevseyevich (Ovshievich) Mandelberg, a native of Berdichev . He had a younger brother, Yevsei (1903-1974), later an engineer. He studied at the Imperial University of St. Vladimir in Kiev . He studied painting at an art studio in Rostov-on-Don . Pupil E. E. Lancere .

In 1924 he first acted as a theater artist. In the Kiev Theater for Children he designed the play “The Nightingale” by H. K. Andersen .

Since 1926 he lived and worked in Moscow. Together with the director F.N. Kaverin, he worked on the problems of designing performances on the small stage in the studio of the Maly Theater and then in the Moscow Drama Theater ( A. Hushs Lekert) by A. Kushnirov at the State Jewish Theater of the BSSR (1928), V. Shkvarkin ’s Schuler ( 1928), “Pereplav” D. Scheglov (1929), “Friendship” by V. Gusev (1935), “Maria Tudor” Hugo (1938), etc.

Supervised the festive decoration of Pushkin Square in Moscow during the Pushkin anniversary of 1937 .

Many engaged in fluorescent theatrical painting . In 1944, under the leadership of E. Mandelberg, the world's first experimental laboratory was created, in which the combined efforts of artists, chemists and lighting engineers developed methods for using luminous paints in the theater. He was the first to systematically apply it for the design of the play: ^[1] Lesnaya Pesnya by L. Ukrainki ( Moscow Theater named after Lenin Komsomol , 1946), Twelve Months by S. Marshak ( State Theater for Young Spectators of the Latvian SSR , 1947), Snezhnaya Queen ”( Moscow Theater of Drama and Comedy , 1947),“ Leyli and Majnun ”by R. Gliere and T. Sadykov ( Theater of Opera and Ballet named after Navoi of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent , 1948), etc.

Designed performances in opera and ballet theaters: “The Queen of Spades” by P. I. Tchaikovsky (1934), “ Aida ” by G. Verdi (1935) in Baku , “Shurale” by F. Z. Yarullina (1939–1940) in Kazan , Leyli and Majnun " Glier in Tashkent (1948). He owns the design of the programs of the State Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR , the Moscow State Circus , etc.

The author of the ballet libretto “ Laurencia ” after the drama Lope de Vega “The Sheep Source.” (1939, the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov ).

He published caricatures and caricatures in the magazines “Krasnaya Niva” , “Modern Theater” , “New Spectator”, etc. He created a number of political and propaganda posters .

He was the author of a number of luminescent-pictorial decorative works (1936-1956), sketches (with T. G. Klyukas and B. M. Baranov), illustrations, several popular science books, a participant in art exhibitions ^{[2] [3]} .

Father's brothers

• Vladimir Evseevich Mandelberg, a doctor, has been the chairman of the board of the Kiev Association Is. Schwartzman, founded by the father of the philosopher Lev Shestov ; He was married to the sister of Lev Shestov, Elizabeth Isaacna Mandelberg (1873-1943).
• Lev Yevseyevich (Ovshiyevich) Mandelberg (? —1938), doctor, head of a surgical clinic in Kiev and member of the board of the unitary Association “Is. Schwartzman ", which was ruled by his father-in-law, the merchant of the first guild, Isaac Moiseyevich Schwartzman; He was married to the sister of the philosopher Lev Shestov , the pianist Maria Isaakovna Shvartsman (1863-1948); their daughter is a sculptor and graphic artist, Sziltsia Lvovna Lutsk (wife of engineer and poet S. A. Lutsky ).
• Victor Yevseyevich Mandelberg , doctor, publicist, Menshevik; He was married to the sister of industrialist M. A. Novomeisky - Agnia Abramovna Novomeyskaya.

• "In the world of cold light." E.M. Mandelberg. Academy of Sciences of the USSR. - M.: Science, 1968
• Exhibition catalog E. M. Mandelberg. Luminescent-pictorial decorative works of 1935-1957. - Moscow, 1958

• During Soviet times, the writer Sergey Mikhalkov published an article about Eugene Mandelberg “Who is stopping this?” ^[4] .

• Theatrical encyclopedia. Volume 3 / Chapter. ed. P. A. Markov - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1964.
• Margolin S., Theater artist for 15 years, M., 1933;
• The exhibition of luminescent (luminous) decorative painting, M., 1958 (Catalog).