Mikhail Natarevich

Mikhail Natarevich
Born	(1907-09-29)29 September 1907 Vitebsk, Russian Empire
Died	23 February 1979(1979-02-23) (aged 71) Leningrad, USSR
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting
Movement	Socialist realism
Awards	Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Mikhail Davidovich Natarevich (Russian: Михаи́л Дави́дович Натаре́вич; 29 September 1907 – 23 February 1979) was a Soviet, Russian painter who lived and worked in Leningrad; he was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, and was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

Biography

Mikhail Davidovich Natarevich was born on 29 September 1907 in Vitebsk, a small Belarusian town. He has gone down in the history of the 20th-century art world with Chagall and Malevich.

Natarevich started his artistic education in Vitebsk at the art school of Yehuda Pen, whose students included Marc Chagall, Osip Zadkine and Lazar Lissitzky.

In 1934 Natarevich came to Leningrad and joined the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studied with Semion Abugov, Alexander Savinov and Mikhail Bernshtein.

In 1940 Natarevich graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Boris Ioganson personal art studio. His graduation work was a historical painting named Kotovsky, dedicated to the legendary hero of the Civil War in Russia.

From 1941 to 1945 Natarevich served in the Great Patriotic War as a member of the Red Army.

Since 1941 Michael Natarevich has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, worked in oil and tempera painting. Solo Exhibitions by Michael Natarevich were in Leningrad (1981) and Saint Petersburg (2008).

Natarevich was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1946.

Mikhail Davidovich Natarevich died on 23 February 1979 in Leningrad in his seventy-second year. Paintings by Natarevich reside in the State Russian Museum and in art museums and private collections throughout the world, notably in Russia, China, Israel, the US, England and Japan.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• List of 20th-century Russian painters

Principal exhibitions

Bibliography

• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1947. Exhibition Catalogue. – Leningrad: Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, 1948.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1951. Exhibition catalogue. -Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1951. -p. 15.
• 1917 – 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1957. Exhibition Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1958. – p. 22.
• Travelling Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. – Murmansk: Leningrad Union of Artists, 1957.
• All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. – Moscow: Soviet artist, 1957. – p. 52.
• All-Union Art Exhibition dedicated to 40th Anniversary of Komsomol. Catalogue. – Moscow: Ministry of Culture of USSR, 1958.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1963. – p. 13.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1961. – p. 28.
• Soviet Russia republic exhibition of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. – Moscow: Ministry of culture of Russian Federation, 1960. – p. 57.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964. – p. 28.
• Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962. Exhibition Catalogue. – Leningrad: : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1962. – p. 19.
• The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. – p. 36.
• The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1968. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1971. – p. 12.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Victory in Great Patriotic war. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. – p. 8.
• Our Contemporary Exhibition catalogue of works by Leningrad artists of 1971. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1972. – p. 16.
• Art works by Russian Federation Artists grants to Museums and Culture Institutions (1963–1971). Official Catalogue. – Moscow: Russian Federation Union of Artists, 1972. – p. 73.
• Our Contemporary The Third Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1973. Catalogue. -Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. – p. 10.
• Exhibitions of Soviet art. Directory. Volume 3. 1941 – 1947. – Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1973. – pp. 11, 225, 334, 342.
• Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. – p. 20.
• The Portrait of Contemporary the Fifth Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1976. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. – p. 16.
• The Fine Arts of Leningrad. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1976. – p. 24.
• Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1982. – p. 17.
• Directory of members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2. – Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. – p. 110.
• Exhibitions of Soviet art. Directory. Volume 5. 1954 – 1958. – Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1981. – pp. 27, 121, 341, 376, 386, 420, 534, 567, 571.
• Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation.- Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. – p. 83.
• Mikhail Natarevich. Painting. Exhibition catalogue. – Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1982.
• Les Paintres du Bonheur. Auction Catalogue. – Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 8 Novembre 1993. – p. 15.
• The Leningrad Artists. Paintings of 1950-1980s. Exhibition catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, 1994. – p. 5.
• Painting from the life, by Leningrad artists. Exhibition catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Nikolai Nekrasov Memorial museum, 1994. – p. 5.
• Saint-Pétersbourg – Pont-Audemer. Dessins, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siècle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint-Pétersbourg. – Pont-Audemer: 1994. – p. 74.
• Paintings from the life of 1940 – 1980 by Leningrad artists. Exhibition Catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Nikolai Nekrasov Memorial Museum, 1994. – p. 4.
• The Lyrics in the works of artists of the war generation. Painting, drawings. Exhibition catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Nikolai Nekrasov Memorial museum, 1995. – p. 4.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. – London: Izomar 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Link of Times: 1932 – 1997. Artists – Members of Saint – Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia. Exhibition catalogue. – Saint Petersburg: Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, 1997. – p. 294.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 19, 20, 395, 385, 387–399, 401, 404, 405, 444. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
• Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 – 2005. – Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 66. ISBN 978-5-903677-01-6.
• Mikhail Natarevich. – Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Publishing, 2009. – 144 p.

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