Victor Isaakovich Gershman (1921 - 2002)

Victor Isaakovich Gershman

Victor Isaakovich Gershman (Russian: Виктор Исаакович Гершман) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter and nonconformist graphic artist.

Victor Gershman began his artistic career early - already at the age of 14 his drawings were exhibited at the International Exhibition of Children's Drawings. He participated in the Second World War, after demobilization and graduation from the Institute he worked at textile mills, but also devoted time to creativity. He traveled a lot, painting landscapes, architecture, still lifes. The artist mastered various techniques - watercolor, ink, pencil, oil, collage. In the 1960s and 1970s he became interested in non-traditional and abstract painting.