Amshey Nurenberg
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Amshey Markovich Nurenberg ' onMouseout='HidePop("604")' href="/topics/Kirovohrad">Elisavetgrad
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  - 10 January 1979, Moscow) was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, art critic, and memoirist.

In 1904 - 1910 he has studied in the Odessa School of Arts with Professor Cyriaque Costandi. After having graduated from the School he continued his education in Paris. He lived in the Latin Quarter
Latin Quarter
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 with other artists from Russia and during a year shared an atelier with M.Chagall
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...

 in the phalanstery La Ruche
La Ruche
La Ruche is an artist's residence at the Paris South-Western outskirts.Located in the "Passage Dantzig," in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, La Ruche was an old three-storey circular structure that got its name because it looked more like a large beehive than any dwelling for humans...

.

In 1913 he returned to Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

, where headed the group of modernists "The Independent", founded the private school "Free Studio" (1918), and participated in exhibitions of Odessa artists. After the Russian Revolution (1917) he was appointed to the People's Commissar of Arts of Odessa and to the head of the Committee for Protecting the Artistic and Historic Heritage.

Since 1920 he lived in Moscow, where was the first art columnist of the newspaper Pravda
Pravda
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, worked in the ROSTA Windows together with Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

, and was professor of history of the Western art at the VKhUTEMAS
VKhUTEMAS
Vkhutemas ) was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas. The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the intentions, in the words of the Soviet government, "to prepare master artists of the highest qualifications for...

. In 1927-29 he was missioned to Paris by the People's Commissar for Education A. Lunacharsky to read lectures on new Soviet arts. In 1932 he has contributed to the organization of the Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists (МОССХ) which later has been extended to the USSR Union of Artists
USSR Union of Artists
Union of Artists of the USSR was a creative union of the Soviet artists and arts critics embracing the union republics.The Union started in 1932 to supersede the AKhRR. The integral Union was instituted in 1957...

.

During the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Nurenberg was in the evacuation in Tashkent
Tashkent
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 (Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

). He continued to work as a painter and finished a series of anti-war paintings. After the war he has continued to work as an artist in Moscow, in particular for the Museum of Revolution.

During his life, Nurenberg has worked in different styles — from avant-garde to realism, having always remained faithful to traditions of the School of Paris
School of Paris
School of Paris refers to two distinct groups of artists — a group of medieval manuscript illuminators, and a group of non-French artists working in Paris before World War I...

.

Family

Wife — ballerina and artist Polina Mamichava Полина Николаевна Мамичева (1894–1978). Daughter — opera singer Nina Nelina (born Nurenberg) coloratura soprano, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater from 1946 to 1957 (Нина Нелина, 1923—1966) and wife of the writer Yury Trifonov
Yury Trifonov
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "urban prose", a 1970s movement inspired by the psychologically complicated works of Anton Chekhov and his 20th-century American followers...

; their daughter (granddaughter of A.Nurenberg) — Dr. Olga Tangian Ольга Юрьевна Тангян (born Trifonova in 1951). One of brothers — the artist David Devinov Давид Девинов (Давид Маркович Нюренберг, 1896—1964).

Biography

April 21, 1887, birth in Elisavetgrad (now Kirovograd), Ukraine, in a Jewish family. Parents were fishmongers. Amshey was the elder of 10 children

1905 graduate from the Elisavetgrad high school, where the arts were taught by Ilya Repin's apprentice Feodosiy Kozachinsky

1905–11 studies at the Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

 School of Arts in the class of Professor Cyriaque Costandi

1911–13 stay in Paris, studies in private Academies of Arts, work as an art reporter for a newspaper in Russian "Paris Bulletin" (Парижский вестник). Share of an atelier with M.Chagall
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...

 in the phalanstery La Ruche
La Ruche
La Ruche is an artist's residence at the Paris South-Western outskirts.Located in the "Passage Dantzig," in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, La Ruche was an old three-storey circular structure that got its name because it looked more like a large beehive than any dwelling for humans...

 in the Passage de Dantzig

1913 return to Elisavetgrad, teaching activities

1915 move to Odessa, joint exhibitions with a group of modernists called later «Odessa Parisians». Organisation of the "Society of the Independent" transformed in 1918 into the "Association of Independent Artists"

1915 marriage with a ballerina Polina Mamichava (1894–1978)

1918 foundation of the "Free Studio" together with the "Children Academy". Teachers were the artists who studied in France (Amshey Nurenberg, Sigismund Olesevich, Alex (Sandro) Fasini, Theophil Freiermann, Isaak Malik). Among Nurenberg learners were Victor Midler (later the senior curator of the Department of the modern Russian art of the Tretjykov Gallery), wife Polina Mamicheva, and Naum Sobol (stage designer)

1919 People's Commissar of Arts of Odessa and the head of the Committee for Protecting the Artistic and Historic Heritage

1919–20 editor-in-chief of the first Soviet newspaper in Elisavetgrad "Red village" (Красная деревня)

1920 move to Moscow, work in the ROSTA Windows together with Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

, Ivan Maljutin, and Mikhail Cheremnych; making over 200 posters

1921 organisation of the New Society of Painting (НОЖ) together with artists Alexander Gluskin, Samuel Adlivankin, Georgy Ryazhskiy, Mikhail Perutskiy, and others; writing the manifesto of the society

1921–22 mission to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 together with Victor Midler and Polina Mamicheva for organisation of restoration of cultural and historic monuments

1922–24 professor of history of the Western art at the VKhUTEMAS
VKhUTEMAS
Vkhutemas ) was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas. The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the intentions, in the words of the Soviet government, "to prepare master artists of the highest qualifications for...



1923 birth of the daughter Nina (soloist of the Bolshoi Theater under the stage name Nina Nelina)

1923–25 joint exhibitions with the former members of the group Jack of Diamonds
Jack of Diamonds (artists)
Jack of Diamonds , also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow. The group included Robert Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Alexander V. Kuprin, Alexander Osmerkin, Wladimir Burliuk, and Pyotr Konchalovsky. The Knave of Diamonds was a scandalous exhibition...

 (1910–17) and writing the art manifesto for their new society Moscow Painters under the chairmanship of Pyotr Konchalovsky
Pyotr Konchalovsky
Pyotr Konchalovsky , was a Russian painter, a member of Jack of Diamonds group.-Life and career:...



1924–26 first arts columnist of the newspaper Pravda
Pravda
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1927–29 Mission to Paris by the People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky as "cultural ambassador" for lecturing on new Soviet arts and writing surveys on French arts for the Soviet press. Participation in the Paris Salon d'automne 1928

1930s contribution to the organisation of the Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists (МОССХ), work for the Museum of Revolution, trips to gather material for creative work to kolkhoz's of Ukraine and North-Caucasus and to coal-fields of Kuzbas

1941–43 evacuation to Tashkent
Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...

 during the World War II
World War II
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. Work at the Uzbek Union of Soviet Artists

1943 return to Moscow. Work for the Museum of Revolution

1950s retirement. Continuation of active artistic and literary work, including participation in exhibitions, writing memoirs, and publications in newspapers and journals

January 10, 1979, death at the age of 91 in Moscow. Burial at the Vagankov cemetery

Works in museums

Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...

 — 67 works, including paintings «Bourgeois Swines» (1929–30), «Supper» (1930), «Socialist contract» (1931)

Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour....

 — 45 works

Moscow, Mayakovsky Museum — 14 works, portraits of Mayakovsky of different years

Moscow, State Museum of the East Nations Art — 69 works, Asia works of 1920s and 1940s

Moscow, State Central Museum of Modern History of Russia (former Museum of Revolution) — portraits of Lenin, revolution and antimilitary works

Moscow, Central Armed Forces Museum
Central Armed Forces Museum
The Central Armed Forces Museum also known as the Museum of the Soviet Army, is located in northern Moscow near the Red Army Theater.-History:...

 (former Museum of Red Army) — painting «Happy youth» (1936)

Kiev, National Art Museum of Ukraine
National Art Museum of Ukraine
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is a museum dedicated to Ukrainian art in Kiev, Ukraine.-Architecture:Constructed in 1898, by architect Vladislav Gorodetsky, the building was originally designed as the museum for the local society of patrons of arts and antique lovers...

 — 39 works

Kirovograd (Ukraine), Regional Art Museum — 102 works

Nukus (Uzbekistan), State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V.Savitsky
Nukus Museum of Art
Nukus Museum of Art or, in full, The State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, named after I.V. Savitsky is an art museum based in Nukus, Uzbekistan...

 — about 60 works

Ramat Gan (Israel), Museum of Russian Art — about 20 works

Minneapolis (USA), The Museum of Russian Art
The Museum of Russian Art
The Museum of Russian Art is a museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota that houses a collection of Russian art from the 20th century, especially Soviet art....

 (TMORA) — 15 works

Exhibitions

1908, Odessa. Exhibition of the Association of South-Russian Artists (ТЮРХ)

1913, Jelisavetgrad. First Jelisavetgrad Art Exhibition

1916, Odessa. Exhibition of the Society of the Independent

1918, Odessa. Exhibition of the Association of Independent Artists

1919, Odessa. First People's Exhibition

1920, Odessa. Exhibition in Memory of T.Shevchenko

1922, Moscow. Exhibition of the New Society of Painting (НОЖ)

1924, Moscow. Joint exhibition of drawings and water-colours with Robert Falk
Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk was a Russian painter.-Biography:Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov, in 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin...

 and Alexander Shevchenko in the State Tsvetkov Art Gallery

1927, Paris. Salon d'automne

1929, Moscow. Exhibition «ROSTA Satiric Windows» in the State Tretyakov Gallery

1932, Venice. Bienale (Excerpt from the catalogue about USSR artists

1939, Moscow. Industry of Socialism

1945, Moscow. Personal exhibition in the Central House of Writers (ZDL)

1961, Moscow. Personal exhibition in the Moscow Department of the Union of Artiststs of the RSFSR (МОСХ РСФСР)

1963, Odessa. Personal exhibition

1979, Moscow. Posthumous personal exhibition at the Moscow Department of the Organisation of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (МОСХ)

1988, Moscow. Exhibition of the Nukus Art Museum in the State Museum of the East Nations Art

2004, Moscow. Exhibition of Brothers Amshey Nurenberg and David Devinov-Nurenberg in the gallery «Kovcheg»

2006, Ramat Gan (Israel). Exhibition «Odessa Parisians» in the Zetlin Museum of Russian Art

2009, Kirovograd (Ukraine). Personal exhibition in the Regional Art Museum
2009, Odessa (Ukraine). City «exhibition» Art Museum
2010, Kiev. Exhibition of works of the Association of Independent Artists from the collection of Jacob Peremen in the Museum of Arts named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko

Books (Russian)

V. Midler and A. Nurenberg (1922) Samarkand and Tashkent. Moscow - Tashkent,
Risolya (Russian)

A. Nurenberg (1924) Paul Cézanne. Moscow, VKhUTEMAS

A. Nurenberg (1969). Reminiscences, acquaintances, thoughts about arts. Moscow, Soviet Artist

A. Nuerenberg (2010) Odessa — Paris — Moscow. Memoires of an artist. Editing and introductory article by O. Tangian. Concluding article by L. Voiskoun. Moscow, Gesharim
Gesharim
Gesharim / Bridging Cultures is a Russian publishing house established in the 1990s which publishes books on Jewish topics in [Russian language|Russian]]...

(Russian)

Membership in artistic unions

1910, Odessa. Association of South-Russian Artists (ТЮРХ )

1915–18, Odessa. Society of the Independent

1918–19, Odessa. Association of Independent Artists

1921–22, Моscow. New Society of Painting (НОЖ)

1926–27, Моscow. Association of artists of the revolutionary Russia (АХРР)

1932–79, Моscow. Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists (МОССХ), later renamed into Moscow Union of Soviet Artists (МССХ), Moscow Department of the Union of Artiststs of the RSFSR (МОСХ РСФСР), and Moscow Department of the Organisation of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (МОСХ)

Sources

  • A. Nurenberg (1969). Reminiscences, acquaintances, thoughts about arts. Moscow, Soviet Artist

  • A. Nurenberg (1994). Stories of an old artist. Time and ourselves (New York - Moscow), No. 124, 225 - 261, and No. 126, 216 - 259





  • O. Tangian (2009). "Odessa Parisan" A.Nurenberg. Deribasovskaya - Rishelyevskaya. Odessa Anthology, Book 37, 182-206 (О. Тангян (2009). "Одесский парижанин" А.Нюренберг. Дерибасовская - Ришельевская. Одесский альманах. Книга 37, стр. 182 - 206)

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