Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein (Russian: Самуи́л Григо́рьевич Невельште́йн; 22 March 1903 – 16 November 1983) was a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most known for his portraits of children and youth.
Biography
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein was born on 22 March 1903 in Kherson, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine).
In 1923 Samuil Nevelshtein came to Moscow and entered VKhuTeMas, which he had graduated in 1927.
In the same year Samuil Nevelshtein arrived in Leningrad and went outside of the competition in the VKhuTeIn (since 1932 - Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). He studied with Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexei Karev.
In 1931 Samuil Nevelshtein graduated from Proletarian Institute of Fine Arts (former VKhuTeIn). His graduation work was genre painting named "Children's Holiday".[2][3]
Since 1928 Samuil Nevelshtein has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical paintings, landscapes, still lifes, worked in oil painting, watercolors, pencil drawing. Solo exhibitions by Samuil Nevelshtein were in Leningrad in 1944, 1956, 1964, 1968, and 1985 year. In 1935 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists. The main theme of Samuil Nevelshtein paintings was the image of a young contemporary, leading genres - portraits and thematic painting.
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein died on 16 November 1983 in Leningrad at the eighty-first year of life. Paintings by Samuil Nevelshtein reside in State Russian Museum,[5] in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[6][7] USA, France,[8] China, Israel, England, Japan, and throughout the world.
^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.53.