Background
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein was born March 22, 1903, in Herson city, Ukraine, Russian Empire.
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein was born March 22, 1903, in Herson city, Ukraine, Russian Empire.
In 1923 Samuil Nevelshtein comes to Moscow and entered VKhuTeMas, which he graduated in 1927. In 1931 Samuil Nevelshtein graduated from Proletarian Institute of Fine Arts (former VKhuTeIn).
In the same year Samuil Nevelshtein arrived in Leningrad and goes outside of the competition in the VKhuTeIn (since 1932 - Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He studie of Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Alexei Karev. His graduation work was genre painting named "Children"s Holiday".
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.
In these years, Secondary Art School pupils were Mikhail Anikushin, Vecheslav Zagonek, Yuri Tulin, Anatoli Levitin, Nikolai Kochukov, Iya Venkova, Vladimir Chekalov, Evgenia Antipova, Victor Teterin, Maya Kopitseva, Elena Kostenko, Abram Grushko, Oleg Lomakin, and others, subsequently became well-known Leningrad artists and sculptors.
Samuil Grigorievich Nevelshtein died on November 16, 1983, in Leningrad at the eighty-first year of life. Paintings by Samuil Nevelshtein reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, United States of America, France, China, Israel, England, Japan, and throughout the world.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Artists.