Isaak Israilewitsch Brodski

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Isaak Brodski . Portrayed by Boris Michailowitsch Kustodijew
Isaak Brodski: Lenin in Smolny , 1930

Isaak Brodsky ( Russian Исаак Израилевич Бродский * December 25, 1883 . Jul / 6. January  1884 greg. In Sofiyivka in Berdyansk , Taurida Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 14. August 1939 in Leningrad ) was a Russian and Soviet artists .

Before the October Revolution , Brodski was one of the members of the Jewish Society for the Advancement of the Arts founded by Natan Issajewitsch Altman (Еврейского общества поощрения художеств) and had some success as a painter, including a portrait of Alexander Kerensyodorov .

In 1922 he was one of the founders of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia and was one of the main exponents of Socialist Realism . His best-known picture is undoubtedly VI Lenin in Smolny (1930), a posthumous, almost naturalistic representation of Lenin . In doing so, Brodski did not strive for idealization or heroization, as was customary until then, but a human representation of the revolutionary leader. Another well-known picture dates from 1933 and bears the title Lenin speaks to Moscow workers on May 5, 1920 . It refers to a photo of the event created by Grigory Petrovich Goldstein , but does not show Trotsky and Kamenev, who later fell out of favor and retouched in the photos .

Brodski was the first artist to be awarded the Order of Lenin .

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