Birshtein M.A.
Relaxing in the garden.

Relaxing in the garden.
Technique:  Oil on canvas.
Size:  70х80.


Birshtein Max Avadevich (1914, Kyiv - 2000, Tarusa). 

Studied at Moscow State Art Institute named after. V.I. Surikov (1935-1942) from I.E. Grabar, G. Shegal, D. Mochalsky. He was influenced by R.R. Falk. Participant of exhibitions since 1939. Author of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes from the life of the Russian North in the 1950s - 1960s. (in 1945-1954 he made trips to the White and Barents Seas, the Northern Dvina, the Malozemelskaya tundra, and Novaya Zemlya). In 1972 he was awarded the All-Union Competition of the Union of Artists of the USSR "My Contemporary". In 1975 and 1978 received diplomas from the Moscow Union of Artists "For the best work of the year." In 1999 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 1968 he participated in exhibitions of Soviet artists in Poland, Romania, England, Holland, Spain, Senegal, France, USA, Germany and Japan. In 1982 he held a personal exhibition in West Berlin, in 1984 in Moscow, in 1995 he participated in the Sotheby's exhibition. In 1995, a retrospective personal exhibition "The World of the Artist" was held (Central House of Artists, Moscow). The artist’s works are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and in many private collections.