Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Goldstein

Background

Grigoriy Goldstein was born on December 28, 1878 in Odessa, Odes'ka Oblast', Ukraine.

Education

Goldstein studied painting in the Odessa Art School. In 1902 he went to Rome where he continued his art education in private studios, creating the first considerable works.

Career

Goldstein began creating his first considerable symbolist works in Rome in 1902.

After a short-term visit to Russia in 1907, he came back abroad again where traveled to Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain. The majority of time he lived in Munich, Germany. During this period Goldstein's works considerably changes, opening the way for modernist painting.

Goldstein comes back to Russia in 1917. The ideas of vanguard dominating in native art are alien to him. During the 1920-s and 1930-s he painted penetrated with isolation and lyricism portraits of his family, sketches of northern nature.

Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Goldstein died on May 5, 1938 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Achievements

• Goldstein was best known for his works "Mirror", "By the lake" and "First portrait".
  
  The name of Grigoriy Goldstein has been removed from history for long decades. Only in the late 90-s due to happy set of circumstances and mysterious events, Goldstein and his creativity come back thanks to the efforts of St. Petersburg collector Dmitry Nefedov, the owner of the main heritage of the author. He managed not only to save the works of the artist from destruction and oblivion, but also to restore them, to organize a series of the most interesting exhibitions in St. Petersburg and Moscow which attracted attention of art lovers to Goldstein.

Works

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• painting

  • Mirror

  • By the lake

  • First portrait

  • Evening

  • House in the park

  • Nostalgia

  • Portrait of a Woman

  • Sunbeam

  • Forest. The road ...

  • Morning plowing

  • Morning

  • Reflexes

  • Mansion

  • Mysticism

  • Idyll

  • In the country

Connections

In 1902 Grigoriy Goldstein married Valeria Hmelnitskaya.

Spouse:

Valeria Hmelnitskaya