Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski (1930 - 2007)

Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski

Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski (Russian: Леонид Яковлевич Межерицкий) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Israeli artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter who specialized in oil painting, a representative of the South Russian (Odessa) school.

Leonid Mezheritski created mainly plein air landscapes, and also worked in the genres of portraiture and still life. His style was based on the coloristic systems of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. His works can be found in state art museums in Ukraine and private collections in various countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, England, Israel and Russia.