Background
BRODSKIY, Isaak was born on January 6, 1884 in village Sofiyevka near Berdyansk.
BRODSKIY, Isaak was born on January 6, 1884 in village Sofiyevka near Berdyansk.
1902 graduate Odessa Art School. 1908 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under I. Ye.
1903-1904 participated in exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki and the Union of Russian Artists. Later at international exhibitions in Rome, Venice, London and Munich. 1910 visited Gorky on Capri and painted his portrait.
After October Revol became ’’court portraitist” and painted a whole gallery of Communist Party figures. Member, Association of Artists of Revol Russia. 1934-1939 professor and director, All-Russian Academy of Arts.
1930 the Brodskiy Art Museum was founded in Berdyansk and the Brodskiy Apartment Museum in Leningrad.