Wladimir Grigoryevich Weisberg

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Wladimir Grigorjewitsch Weisberg ( Russian Владимир Григорьевич Вейсберг ; * June 7, 1924 in Moscow ; † January 1, 1985 ibid) was a Russian painter .

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Starting from classic-modern positions (including Paul Cézanne ), Weisberg found his own conception, also based on art theory, in the course of the 1960s a “non-colored” monochrome ) existed, but retained the objectivity. The tonal values ​​only minimally modulated, quasi-monochrome still lifes, nudes and portraits of women dominate the painterly oeuvre, while the plein-air landscape drawing also plays a role in the graphic work .

reception

Largely isolated both within the Soviet-Russian art world and in the international art-historical context, Weisberg remained an outsider during his lifetime, whose works, with few exceptions (including the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg), were mainly private Collections (e.g. in ART4.RU ) were included.

literature

  • Weisberg, V. (edited by Y. Zvarich and K. Iskoldskaya): Autobiography . The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Beliy Bereg. Moscow, 2006. ISBN 5-98353-010-0
  • Y. Zvarich, K, Iskoldskaya (ed.): Vladimir Grigoryevich Weisberg. The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Beliy Bereg. Moscow, 2006. ISBN 5-98353-010-0
  • VGWeisberg. Paintings, watercolors, drawings. Catalog to the Exhibition at the State Tretiakov Gallery in Honor of his 70th Birthday. State Tretiakov Gallery. Moscow 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. cf. B. Kasatkin in the text accompanying VGWeisberg. Paintings, watercolors, drawings. Catalog to the Exhibition at the State Tretiakov Gallery in Honor of his 70th Birthday. State Tretiakov Gallery 1994, pp. 25f.
  2. Владимир Вейсберг на сайте музея ART4.RU ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )