Background
He was born in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast and lived in Moscow.
He was born in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast and lived in Moscow.
He graduated from the Moscow textile Institute, the faculty of Applied Arts in 1966.
Savelii Mitelman was a representative of the underground. His original creative style became noticeable in the beginning of seventies. In 1974 he took part in the exhibitions of nonconformists in Izmailovsky park and Belyayevo (the so-called Bulldozer Exhibition).
In 1979 he entered the Joint Committee of graphic artists (it was subsequently transformed to the International Federation of Artists of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and since then he had participated in the art life of this organization regularly.
He was close to the Moscow underground art though did not belong to any particular group of lieutenant His first personal exhibition (1986) in Malaya Gruzinskaya street, 28 was very successful.
The number of his personal exhibitions exceeded thirty. He participated in the international salons in Moscow and Barcelona.
He did not adhere to any aesthetic direction though every his painting had its certain concept.
The style problem had never been principal for him. He is buried in Moscow (the Mitinskoe Cemetery). 1990, January - in Kuntsevo showroom;
1990 - Gdansk, "Decline of idea";
1992 - gallery "Inter-Mars";
1994 September–October - the Union-Gallery;
1995 March–April - gallery Ostozhenka;
1995 August – CHA;
1998 July–August – CHA;
2000 January - gallery Ramenki;
2000 March - Taganka, showroom;
2001 September – CHA;
2001 – Barcelona;
1996 - 2000 - five exhibitions in the gallery "Creativity Union".
Some of his largest shows were: exhibitions of the International Federation in "Manezh". Exhibition of the Associations "Ecology" and "Memories of victims of Stalinism" in Central House of Artists (CHA, Crymsky Val street). "The golden brush" - 1997, 1998, 1999.