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Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן; 21 September 1939 – 23 November 2025) was a Russian-born Israeli poet and painter. He was father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.[citation needed]
Michail Grobman was born in Moscow on 21 September 1939, to an engineer's family. During his school years, he went by the pseudonym Michel Afinsky. In 1956–1958, he studied at an evening school and worked as a mason at a construction site, where he began a friendship with the poet and dissident Vladimir Gershuni (1930–1995), who influenced the formation of Grobman's political views.
In 1957, at the exhibition of the 40th anniversary of Soviet art in the Central House of Art Workers, he was arrested. He was released the next day.
In 1959, Grobman's first solo exhibition took place at the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design, and in 1965, at the House of Artists in Moscow, where Grobman's works on Jewish themes were exhibited, which was an almost unbelievable event for that time.
In 1965, he published a cycle of poems in the American literary almanac “Airways” under the pseudonym Mikhail Rusalkin. Later, this pseudonym was lost, and for the second time in this publication, Grobman was published as G.D.E.
In 1967, he was admitted to the Artists' Union of the USSR. In 1971, he emigrated to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. In 1975, together with friends and students, he organized the group of Israeli artists "Leviathan", published the magazine of the same name.
Grobman lived in Tel Aviv from 1983 onwards, where he died on 23 November 2025, at the age of 86.
Grobman's works are in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Pompidou Centre (Paris), etc., and in private collections in Israel, the USA, Germany and Russia.
