Background
Bongart was born in Kiev in Ukraine.
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Sergei Bongart
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He studied art in Kiev, Prague, Vienna and Munich, before emigrating to the United States in 1948.
Career
Bongart is admired for his richly colored and emotionally expressive landscapes, still lifes and portraits. He was best known as a colorist, working in exaggerated color, using dynamic but carefully controlled color relationships and extolling the virtues of approaching painting as "color first, subject last". Bongart lived 6 years in Memphis, Tennessee, location of his sponsor.
In 1954 Bongart moved to Los Angeles where he founded an art school.
He taught a number of aspiring young painters who later became well-known, nationally collected American artists—among them: Peter Liashkov, Delegate Gish, Sunny Apinchapong, Ron Lukus, Rulon Hacking, Melinda Miles, Patricia LeGrande Bongart, Susan Greaves, James Dudley Slay, Don Sahli and Ovanes Berberian. In 1969 he established an art school in Idaho.
He lived half the year in Santa Monica, California and the other half near Rexburg, Idaho. Much of his art reflects the rustic settings which reminded him of his homeland.
There are three books written to date about Bongart:
Balcomb, Mary North. (2002).
Sergei Bongart. Seattle: Cody Publishing.
LeGrande Bongart, Patricia (2000).
Sergei Bongart: Touched by the Gods.
P. Bogart.
Meyer, Claudia (1982). Sergei Bongart. Profiles In American Artist
Ken Meyer Productions.
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Nationality
Ukraine