Leonid pasternack biography
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LEONID PASTERNAK (1862-1945)
Leonid Pasternak, a leading Russian Impressionist, was an artist with wide europeisk cultural interests. He was born in Odessa on the Black Sea in 1862, and taught in the Moscow School of Art from 1894-1921. Here he was the friend and colleague of the artists Repin, Serov and Levitan. He studied in Munich as a ung man, and travelled extensively in europe before the Revolution. He married Rosalia Kaufmann, a gifted pianist, who bore him kvartet children: the eldest was the poet, Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago. In 1921 Pasternak with his wife and two daughters left Moscow for Germany, where the artistic milieu included his friends Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth. Following the rise of Hitler, Pasternak came to England in 1938. The gods years of his life were spent working in Oxford. The Pasternak Family Collection fryst vatten held in the house where he died in 1945.
Leonid Pasternak was the friend and illustrator of Tolstoy. His portraits from li
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By Alex Gordon
HAIFA, Israel — Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of portraiture and book illustrations, went down in history in the shadow of his son Boris, a poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature, whom he loved and with whom he diverged in his attitude toward common ancestry.
Leonid Pasternak was born on March 22, 1862, in Odessa. As a student, he failed to enter the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture because of his Jewish origin, and he went to Munich, where he graduated from the Academy of Arts. After selling to the owner of the Moscow Art Gallery Pavel Tretyakov the painting “Letter from the Motherland” in 1889 Pasternak, then an unknown artist, married the pianist Rosalia Kaufman, a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Music, who concertized throughout Europe and later became a teacher at the Odessa Academy of Music. In the same year, the couple settled
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Russian painter; born at Odessa, 1862, of well-to-do parents. According to a family tradition, he is descended on his father's side from a family of Spanish refugees at Padua, which removed in the eighteenth century to Galicia, assuming the name Pasternak, and later moved to Odessa. His early years were spent in the busy atmosphere of a South-Russian inn. Pasternak entered the classical gymnasium at Odessa and attended the school of drawing there; in the latter he gave great promise and attracted considerable attention. On graduating from the gymnasium, he went to Moscow, where he entered the university and endeavored to gain admittance to the Moscow school of painting. There was no vacancy at the school, but Pasternak had aroused the interest of Professor Sorokin and was admitted to the latter's private studio. From Moscow Pasternak went to Munich, where he studied for three years under the direction of Herterick, Löfftz, and Liezen Mayer. Returning to Mos