Solomon Yakovlevich Kishinevsky (1862 - 1941)
Solomon Yakovlevich Kishinevsky
Solomon Yakovlevich Kishinevsky (Russian: Соломон Яковлевич Кишинёвский) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries of Jewish origin. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and teacher, a prominent representative of the Southern Russian school of painting.
Solomon Kishinevsky worked in domestic, portrait and landscape genres. At the beginning of his career, he was fond of German and Italian classicism, then French impressionism, but the first serious works he created under the strong influence of the Itinerants. His life sketches, scenes from the life of the urban poor were acutely social, the artist has a special attention to the everyday existence of the "little man.
Kishinevsky died presumably in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Odessa.
| Date and place of birt: | 1862, Odessa, Russian Empire |
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| Date and place of death: | 1941, Odessa, USSR |
| Nationality: | Russia, Ukraine, USSR, Russian Empire |
| Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
| Specialization: | Educator, Genre painter, Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Art school / group: | Itinerants, Société des artistes indépendants |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Genre art, Landscape painting, Portrait |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Realism, Social realism |
