Artist: Leonid Pasternak (1862 - 1945)
Nationality: Russian
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Russian artist, Leonid Pasternak moved to Berlin in 1921 and began working as a portrait painter. He befriended many cultural figures, including Leo Tolstoy. He illustrated Tolstoy’s War and Peace; Resurrection. He also produced portraits of Max Liebermann and Albert Einstein. With the rise of Nazism, Pasternak left Germany and settled in England. He spent the final years of his life in Oxford.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (6)
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Leonid - Faraduro, Portugal 1952 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Leonid Berman, Russian (active in France), 1896-1976 Boats near Boulogne Oil on canvas 65.1 x
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Palace of Labor Project for Moscow, William Lippens  (after), 1923 (1980 reconstruction by William Lippens), Strathmore board, basswood core, plywood base
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Palace of Labor Project for Moscow, William Lippens  (after), 1923 (1980 reconstruction by William Lippens), Strathmore board, basswood core, plywood base
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Palace of Labor Project for Moscow, William Lippens  (after), 1923 (1980 reconstruction by William Lippens), Strathmore board, basswood core, plywood base
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Palace of Labor Project for Moscow, William Lippens  (after), 1923 (1980 reconstruction by William Lippens), Strathmore board, basswood core, plywood base

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (4)
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Bendixen Contemporary Art: LOOKING FOR LARA : Cecilia Westerberg
In Room 1 Westerberg examines, through simple questions about which scenes, figures or things that has made the greatest impression, how our memory of Dr. Zhivago is part of our collective image-bank and therefore collective memory. And at the sam...
Society for Midwest Metalsmiths: Call for Artists: METAL Inclinations2 2010-11 An International Online Jewelry Exhibition
All applications should be made through the Juried Art Services Web site. www.juriedartservices.com. DEADLINE: June 30, 2010
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: September 1, 2010
DEBUT DATE: October 31,...
Society for Midwest Metalsmiths: Call for Artists: METAL Inclinations2 International Juried Online Jewelry Exhibition
DEADLINE: June 30, 2010 METAL Inclinations2 will debut on the Internet October 31, 2010 and continue for one year until October 31, 2011 Go to: http://www.metalinclinations.org/enter.htm
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection
Many of the paintings in Pulp Art, most of them from the 1930s and 1940s, will be presented alongside the printed magazine covers for which they were created. Often melodramatic, even lurid, these images were intended to catch the eye as dozens of...

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Leonid Pasternak
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Leonid Pasternaks Rilke sketch (Moscow c. 1900)
- Varenr. 213459, Leonid Pasternak 1862-1945 (dds), 2 st
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Leo Tolstoy 29 x 24 in. h. Leonid Pasternak
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OUP USA: Leonid Pasternak: The Russian Years, 1875-1921: Rimgaila Salys

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