Background
Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein was born January 28, 1875 in Rostov-on-Don.
Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein was born January 28, 1875 in Rostov-on-Don.
He studied painting and drawing in London (1894–1899), Munich, Paris (1899–1901), visited Italy. In 1901-1903 Bernshtein studied in Inperial Academy of Arts, where he was student of Ilya Repin.
Since 1902 Mikhail Bernshtein begins to participate in art exhibitions. In 1907-1916 he taught in Saint St. Petersburg, where he hold private art school. In 1916-1924 he taught at art school in Zhitomir, in 1924-1932 at the Art Institute in Kiev.
In 1932-1948 Bernshtein taught drawing in the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad.
He wrote several articles and tutorials on deawing, as well as the book «Problems of teaching drawing». In 1948-1950 he taught also in Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Artist
In 1930-1940 Mikhail Bernshtein made a great contribution to the system of Soviet Art education and artistic training of highly qualified young artists. Vladimir Lebedev
Vladimir Tatlin
Felix Lembersky
Piotr Belousov
Piotr Vasiliev
Anatoli Vasiliev
Sergei Osipov
Vecheslav Zagonek
Evgenia Baykova
Mikhail Kozell
Nikolai Mukho
Mikhail Natarevich
Maria Rudnitskaya
Gleb Savinov
Elena Skuin
Alexander Sokolov
Nikolai Timkov
Alexander Debler
Yuri Tulin
Lev Orekhov
Nadezhda Shteinmiller
and a lot of others
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Artists.