Pavel Feinstein

Pavel Feinstein (* 1960 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a German draftsman and painter .

Life

Feinstein grew up in Tajikistan , where his father took over a chair for architectural history in Dushanbe . He came into contact with art at an early age through his parents' house. He received private painting lessons and from 1978 to 1979 he attended art school. The artist of Jewish faith emigrated to Germany with his family in 1980. At the University of the Arts , he studied 1980-1985 painting and was a master student at Gerhart Bergmann . Since then he has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. He showed his work in many gallery exhibitions. His style is shaped by Russian realism and Cézanne . He paints melancholy still lifes, portraits and figures based on biblical stories from the Tanakh . In 2002/2003 the Jewish Museum Berlin dedicated the most extensive show to date with around 70 paintings. On the occasion of an exhibition of 150 paintings in 2010 in Osthaus Museum of Hagen Manfred Schwarz called him in the time a "new old master," the "dizzying imagery" creates the act of "Crime and Punishment, curse and salvation."

Publications (selection)

• Kay Heymer : Pavel Feinstein. Les Petits Fours. The small format , text: German / English, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-7774-2447-7
• Sketches from the Berlin Zoo 2002 - 2007 , illustrated book, Sawadowski, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-941305-03-8

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Pavel Feinstein at artfacts.net
• Literature by and about Pavel Feinstein in the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
• Master of alienation. A studio visit to Pavel Feinstein. Jewish General, February 14, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Nungesser: Painting by Pavel Feinstein: Knurrhahn und Seeteufel - in the Taube Gallery , Der Tagesspiegel, June 16, 2000
2. ↑ Manfred Schwarz: Art by Pavel Feinstein. The new old master , DIE ZEIT, August 26, 2010 No. 35