"art. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles, noted for coining the terms ""Fauvism"" and ""Cubism"", also meant disparagingly, called immigrant artists unwashed ""Slavs disguised as representatives of French art"". Waldemar George, himself a French Jew, in 1931 lamented that the School of Paris name ""allows any artist to pretend he is French...it refers to French tradition but instead annihilates it."" School of Paris artists were progressively marginalized. Beginning in 1935 art publications no longer wrote about Chagall, just magazines for Jewish audiences, and by June 1940 when the Vichy government took power, School of Paris artists could no longer exhibit in Paris"
"Georgy Shishkin Georgy Shishkin (; ; born January 25, 1948) is a Russian painter. Born in Ekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk), Russia, son of a first violinist of the orchestra of the musical theatre, from the age of six, Shishkin began violin classes. As a child he showed an early passion for drawing, and by his tenth year he was enrolled a fine art school. During his youth, he was deeply influenced by the atmosphere at his great-grandparents’ house, steeped with authentic Russian traditions conserved during the Soviet regime. Young Shishkin travelled to the many old cities in his country. With his"
"the age of 82. She is buried in Paris, at the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. Zinaida Serebriakova Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) (, – 19 September 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter. Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire. She belonged to the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a famous architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a famous painter, founder of the"
"Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. For"
"French Republic. Today his paintings reside in State Russian museum, in art museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, in the U.S., England, and throughout the world. Vladimir Ovchinnikov (painter) Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov (; July 14, 1911, Saratov, Russian Empire – June 22, 1978, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded by art historian Sergei Ivanov as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape paintings. Vladimir Ovchinnikov was born July 14, 1911"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"in addition to the repairs, were in the composer's own blood. Nikolai Obukhov Nikolai Borisovich Obukhov (; Nicolai, Nicolas, Nikolay; Obukhow, Obouhow, Obouhov, Obouhoff) (22 April 189213 June 1954) was a modernist and mystic Russian composer, active mainly in France. An avant-garde figure who took as his point of departure the late music of Scriabin, he fled Russia along with his family after the Bolshevik Revolution, settling in Paris. His music is notable for its religious mysticism, its unusual notation, its use of an idiosyncratic 12-tone chromatic language, and its pioneering use of electronic musical instruments in the era of"
"violin virtuosity that impresses with almost inhuman perfection"". ""Le Figaro"" called Snitkovsky’s Parisian concerts an ""eye opener"". To commemorate Snitkovsky’s seventy-fifth birthday, recording company ""Melodia"" issued a set of CDs containing his recordings of Bach, Paganini, Schumann, Shubert, Liszt, Bartok, Stravinsky, Khachaturian, Ysaye, Debussy, etc. Semyon's niece, Simona Snitkovskaya, is a resident pianist at Opera San Jose, teaches piano, and coaches opera singers. She herself is a wonderful pianist. Semyon Snitkovsky Semyon Snitkovsky (Rus: Семён Снитковский; August 9, 1933 in Odessa – April 4, 1981 in Moscow) - was a Soviet classical violinist and a professor. Semyon (Semion) Snitkovsky's formal"
"in Moscow Museum of Modern Art and in private collections throughout the world, including Aaron Frenkel, David Nahmad, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev and the Prince of Monaco, Albert II. Alexander Aizenshtat Alexander Aizenshtat (Alexander Eisenstadt; born in 1951, Moscow) is a Russian-French-Austrian artist known as the founder of a new movement in world fine arts - metaphysical expressionism. He lives and works in both Jerusalem and Moscow. He is also known for following Orthodox Jewish practice, keeping the requirements strictly. Alexander Aizenshtat was born in 1951 in Moscow and grew up at Chistye prudy area in an intelligent family. His"
"Yuri Yankelevich. Abram Yampolsky Abram Ilich Yampolsky ( (; 1890–1956) was an eminent Soviet violin teacher who nurtured many generations of Russian virtuosos during his tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in Petersburg in 1913 in the class of Sergej Korguyev, a pupil and assistant of Leopold Auer, and was to be a founder of the modern Soviet school. Pupils include Leonid Kogan, Julian Sitkovetsky, Igor Bezrodniy, Yakov Boroditsky, Boris Goldstein, Elizabeth Gilels, Mikhail Fikhtengoltz, Yakov Rabinovich, Isaac Zhuk, Mark Lubotsky. He was the uncle of Izrail Markovich Yampolsky (Kiev, 1905–76 ) who graduated with him in 1930. He"
"Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as"
"Serge Poliakoff Serge Poliakoff (January 8, 1900 – October 12, 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris (Tachisme). Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow in 1900, the thirteenth of fourteen children. (Some sources claim that he was born in 1900, which in fact fits in better with his later history - 1906 would have him leaving home and earning his living as a musician at the age of 12.) His father, a Kyrgyz, supplied the army with horses that he bred himself and also owned a racing stable. His mother was heavily involved"
"Valentin Serov Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (; 19 January 1865 – 5 December 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. Serov was born in Saint Petersburg, son of the Russian composer and music critic Alexander Serov, and his wife and former student Valentina Serova also a composer in her own right. Raised in a highly artistic milieu he was encouraged to pursue his talents by his parents and in his childhood he studied in Paris and Moscow under Ilya Repin and in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1880–1885) under Pavel Chistyakov. Serov's"
"several operations. He died at 2 am on December 25, 2017, at the age of 92, after a long illness at the San Diego Hospital in California, United States. Vladimir Shainsky Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Shainsky was born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He first studied violin at the music school in Kiev. His studies there were interrupted in 1941 by the World War II, when his family was evacuated to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. He continued his musical education at the Tashkent Conservatory, until he was"
"Zakhar Bron Zakhar Bron ( ; born 17 December 1947, in Oral, Kazakhstan) is a Russian violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent. He's considered the best Professor of the world. His students have included Vadim Repin, Gwendolyn Masin, Daniel Hope, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman, Igor Malinovsky, Denis Goldfeld, Daishin Kashimoto, Tamaki Kawakubo, Mayuko Kamio, Mayu Kishima, Soyoung Yoon, Christoph Seybold, Sayaka Shoji, Nikolai Madoyev and David Garrett. Bron studied with Boris Goldstein. Before he was well-known, he taught privately in Novosibirsk. Since then, he has taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Conservatory of Rotterdam, the"
"the world. Such a collector could appear only in a country that awaited a revolution. He collected art that prefigured the global cataclysms"". In the autumn of 2016, the exhibibition ""Icônes de l'art moderne. La collection Chtchoukine"", opened at ""Fondation Louis Vuitton"" in Paris. Sergei Shchukin Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (; 27 May 1854 – 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was born on 27 May 1854 in Moscow, one of ten children of Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin, a self-made Moscow merchant, and his wife Ekaterina"
"Rudolf Barshai Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (, September 28, 1924November 2, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist. Barshai was born on September 28, 1924, in Stanitsa Labinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, in modern-day Russia. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist with Sviatoslav Richter and David Oistrakh and as a member of a trio with Mstislav Rostropovich and Leonid Kogan. During his career Barshai won numerous Soviet and international competitions and was the founding violist of the Borodin Quartet in 1945, where he remained a member until 1953. He later"
"playing, creating a series of methodological publications. Professor Yankelevich died in Moscow. Yuri Yankelevich Yuri Yankelevich (Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич) (7 March 7, 1909 – 22 September 22, 1973) was an eminent Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. Yuri Yankelevich was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, Isay Leontyevich Yankelevich, a prominent lawyer, was one of the founders of the Omsk Philharmonic Society. In Omsk, young Yuri studied with Leopold Auer's student, Anisim Berlin, a grandfather of Natalia Gutman. In 1923 he entered Leningrad Conservatory, the class of Hovhaness"
"Nikolai Obukhov Nikolai Borisovich Obukhov (; Nicolai, Nicolas, Nikolay; Obukhow, Obouhow, Obouhov, Obouhoff) (22 April 189213 June 1954) was a modernist and mystic Russian composer, active mainly in France. An avant-garde figure who took as his point of departure the late music of Scriabin, he fled Russia along with his family after the Bolshevik Revolution, settling in Paris. His music is notable for its religious mysticism, its unusual notation, its use of an idiosyncratic 12-tone chromatic language, and its pioneering use of electronic musical instruments in the era of their earliest development. Obukhov was born in Ol'shanka, in Kursk Province,"
"Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov (), 12 April 1953 – 8 November 2006, was a Russian artist. In looking at his art, one can easily appreciate that Smirnov ranks Gustav Klimt, the Austrian painter whose images were a cornerstone of the art nouveau movement, as an important influence. He also cites Modigliani and Rembrandt as major influences, as well as Andrei Rublev and Pheophan Grek, who were celebrated masters of Slavic icon painting. Smirnov’s style has echoes of his favorite period of Russian art, known as “parsuna”, which bridged the worlds of religious and personal portraiture, as Russian painters"
"sheets. Although the stamps all portray his various masterpieces, the names of the artwork are not listed on the stamps. There were also several major exhibitions of Chagall's work during his lifetime and following his death. During the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a Chagall-like float with clouds and dancers passed by upside down hovering above 130 costumed dancers, 40 stilt-walkers and a violinist playing folk music. Marc Chagall Marc Zakharovich Chagall ( ; born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with"
"He lived in Hanover, Germany, and was married to Tatiana Tarasova, a renowned figure skating coach, who trained the winners of nine Olympic gold medals. On 29 April 2011 Krainev died in his house in Hanover, aged 67. Vladimir Krainev Vladimir Krainev (; 1 April 1944 – 29 April 2011) was a Russian pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR. Krainev was born in Krasnoyarsk, the son of musician Vsevolod Krainev and pediatrician Rachil Gerschoig. He studied at the Central School of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Anaida Sumbatyan, and also studied at the Conservatory"
"clarinetist to play the quintets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms, and also the Trio pathétique by Mikhail Glinka. In 1922-1932 he was a member of Persimfans. From 1916 Rozanov taught clarinet at the Moscow Conservatory. His pupils include Alexander Volodin, Ivan Mayorov and other clarinetists, who later become professors and laureates of different musical competitions. Rozanov made several transcriptions for clarinet and wrote numerous studies for it. Sergei Rozanov Sergei Vasilievich Rozanov (1870–1937) was a Russian clarinetist and teacher, considered to be the founder of modern Russian clarinet school. In 1886, he entered Moscow Conservatory, where his teacher"
"students. Anisfeld's name returns from oblivion. The New York Times publishes a short biographical piece about him. 1973 - Anisfeld dies in New London, Connecticut. Boris Anisfeld Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld (1878–1973) was a Russian-American painter and theater designer. 1878 - October 2. Boris Izrailevich (Srulevich) Anisfeld is born in Bieltsy, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Moldova), into the family of Srul Ruvinovich Anisfeld, an estate manager, and Gitlya Istkovna Anisfeld. Until he is seventeen, the future artist lives in his parents’ home. He learns German and French. 1885 - Anisfeld learns to play the violin, and"
"has erroneously been referred to as 'Alexander Gorokhov' on a CD release by Yedang Entertainment, leading some websites and music vendors to list him under the wrong name. Alexei Gorokhov Aleksey Nikolaevich Gorokhov (; ; February 11, 1927, Moscow - February 3, 1999) was a Soviet violinist who lived most of his life in Ukraine. Many Ukrainian violinists are either his pupils or pupils of his pupils. Aleksey Gorokhov studied at the Central Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory between 1934 and 1944. At the Conservatory he studied in the class of Professor , graduating in 1949. In 1955"
"and composed a concerto for viola as well as chamber works. Bakaleinikov was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1924. Vladimir Bakaleinikov Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikov, also Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff (; 3 October 1885 in Moscow – 5 November 1953 in Pittsburgh) was a Russian-American violist, music educator, conductor and composer. Bakaleinikov, the son of a noted clarinetist, was from a large musical family who lived in poverty. His elder brother was flautist, composer and conductor Nikolai Bakaleinikov (1881–1957), his younger brothers, both composers, were Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960) and Constantin Bakaleinikoff (1898–1966). Bakaleinikov entered the"
"""Viy"" by Nikolai Gogol. His illustrations for several works by Pushkin were never published. After his eldest son died in 1933, his health began to decline and he died three years later. Major retrospectives of his work were held in Paris in 1937, the 1960s, and 1987. Constantin Kousnetzoff Constantin Kousnetzoff, or Konstantin Pavlovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Константин Павлович Кузнецов); (10 August 1863, Zhyolnino - 30 December 1936, Paris) was a Russian painter who spent most of his career in France; known primarily for his landscapes, cityscapes and Symbolist watercolors. He was born to a wealthy merchant family who owned a"
"February 25, 1942 in the besieged Leningrad at the sixty-first year of life. His works reside in State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, in museums and private collections in Russia, Britain, France, and other countries. Alexander Savinov Alexander Ivanovich Savinov (, July 17, 1881 – February 25, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the founders of the Leningrad School of painting. Savinov was born on July 17, 1881, in Saratov in the family of"
"Alexander Ivashkin Alexander Ivashkin (), (17 August 1948 – 31 January 2014) was a Russian cellist, writer, academic and conductor. Ivashkin studied at the Gnessin Institute, where his teachers included Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Valery Polyansky. He also played electric cello, viola da gamba, sitar and piano. Ivashkin became co-principal cellist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. In 1978, he founded the Bolshoi Soloists, a new chamber orchestra. From 1995, Ivashkin founded the Adam International Cello Festival and Competition. He was also artistic director of annual festivals in London, including The VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists. In 1999 he founded a"
"His works are included in the art collection of the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine in Paris. Abraham Berline Abraham Joseph Berline (6 October 1893 – 1942) was a Russian artist who lived in Paris and died during World War II. Abraham Joseph Berline was born on October 6, 1893, in Nizhyn, Russian Empire (currently in Ukraine). He was the son of Leib Berline and Hana Kaganoff. In 1912, at the age of 19, he emigrated to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He supported himself by driving a taxi and every place"
"Yuri Yankelevich Yuri Yankelevich (Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич) (7 March 7, 1909 – 22 September 22, 1973) was an eminent Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory. Yuri Yankelevich was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, Isay Leontyevich Yankelevich, a prominent lawyer, was one of the founders of the Omsk Philharmonic Society. In Omsk, young Yuri studied with Leopold Auer's student, Anisim Berlin, a grandfather of Natalia Gutman. In 1923 he entered Leningrad Conservatory, the class of Hovhaness Nalbandian (also a student of Leopold Auer). On Yankelevich's graduation composer Alexander"
"teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. Valery Klimov (violinist) Valeri Klimov (born October 16, 1931) is a Russian violinist. Klimov was born in Kiev (then in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine). He was trained at the Odessa and Moscow Conservatories. While a disciple of David Oistrakh there, he was appointed a soloist at the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and won the inaugural violin edition of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Later in his life he was allowed to perform in the West, debuting at the Royal Festival Hall in 1967; he has performed abroad since. He was a People's Artist of the"
"manage his collection. Today, one of the key locations the public can see his art is at the Vineyard Hotel, Newbury, Berkshire, England. Boris Smirnoff Boris Smirnoff (1903 - 2007) was a Franco-Russian cubist, avant-gardist and analytical art painter. Boris Smirnoff was born in Russia. He had two brothers - Alexander and Vladimir. He was the youngest son. Vladimir was known as the artist-amateur and the futurist, big admirer of David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky. His family escaped to France in 1917 after the October Revolution in Russia. Boris behind them, and stayed in Petrograd. He is learning as artist"