Amshey Nurenberg
Amshey Markovich Nurenberg was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, art critic, and memoirist. He was an adherent of the School of Paris.
During his life, Nurenberg worked in different styles—from avant-garde to realism, having always remained faithful to traditions of the School of Paris.
Biography
He was born on 21 April 1887, in Elisavetgrad in a Jewish family. His parents were fishmongers. Amshey was the eldest of 10 children; one of his brothers,, also was an artist. In 1905 he graduated from the Elisavetgrad lycée, where the arts were taught by Ilya Repin's apprentice Feodosiy Kozachinsky.From 1905 to 1911 he studied at the Odessa School of Arts in the class of Professor Kyriak Kostandi.
From 1911 to 1913 he lived in Paris, where he studied in private art academies. He worked as an art correspondent for a Russian-language newspaper, "Paris Bulletin". He shared an atelier with M.Chagall in the phalanstère La Ruche in the Passage de Dantzig.
In 1913 he returned to Elisavetgrad, where he worked as a teacher.
In 1915 he moved to Odessa, where he staged joint exhibitions with a group of modernists called later "Odessa Parisians". He founded the Organisation of the "Society of the Independent", which transformed in 1918 into the "Association of Independent Artists".
In 1915 he married the ballerina Polina Mamicheva.
In 1919 he was appointed the People's Commissar of Arts of Odessa and the head of the Committee for Protecting Artistic and Historic Heritage.
From 1919 to 1920 he was editor-in-chief of the first Soviet newspaper in Elisavetgrad "Red village"
In 1920 he moved to Moscow, where he worked in the ROSTA Windows together with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Maljutin, and Mikhail Cheremnykh; making over 200 posters.
From 1922 to 1924 he was professor of history of Western art at the VKhUTEMAS. In 1923 Nurenberg's daughter Nina was born; she would grow up to be a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater under the stage name Nina Nelina.
From 1923 to 1925 he staged joint exhibitions with the former members of the group Knave of Diamonds and writing the art manifesto for their new society Moscow Painters under the chairmanship of Pyotr Konchalovsky
From 1924 to 1926 he was the first art columnist of the newspaper Pravda.
He was evacuated to Tashkent during World War II, where he worked at the Uzbek Union of Soviet Artists. He returned to Moscow in 1943, where he worked for the Museum of Revolution. He retired in the 1950s. He continued his artistic and literary life, including participation in exhibitions, writing memoirs, and publications in newspapers and journals.
He died on 10 January 1979. He is buried at the Vagankovo cemetery.
Works in museums
- Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery: 67 works, including paintings Bourgeois Swines, Supper, Socialist contract
- Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: 45 works
- Moscow, : 14 works, portraits of Mayakovsky of different years
- Moscow, : 69 works, Asia works of 1920s and 1940s
- Moscow, : portraits of Lenin, revolution and antimilitary works
- Moscow, Central Armed Forces Museum : painting Happy Youth
- Kiev, National Art Museum of Ukraine: 39 works
- Kirovograd, : 102 works
- Nukus, State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitsky: about 60 works
- Ramat Gan, about 20 works
- Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art : 15 works
Exhibitions
- 1908, Odessa. Exhibition of the Association of South-Russian Artists
- 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
- 1924, Moscow. Joint exhibition of drawings and water-colours with Robert Falk and Alexander Shevchenko at the State Tsvetkov Art Gallery
- 1927, Paris. Salon d'automne
- 1929, Moscow. Exhibition «ROSTA Satiric Windows» at the State Tretyakov Gallery
- 1932, Venice. Biennale
- 1939, Moscow. Industry of Socialism
- 1945, Moscow. Personal exhibition at the Central House of Writers
- 1961, Moscow. Personal exhibition at the Moscow Department of the Union of Artiststs of the RSFSR
- 1963, Odessa. Personal exhibition
- 1979, Moscow. Posthumous personal exhibition at the Moscow Department of the Organisation of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR
- 1988, Moscow. Exhibition of the Nukus Art Museum at the State Museum of the East Nations Art
- 2004, Moscow. at the gallery «Kovcheg»
- 2006, Ramat Gan. Exhibition at the
- 2009, Kirovohrad, Ukraine. Personal exhibition at the
- 2009, Odesa. Personal exhibition at the
- 2010, Kyiv. at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts
- 2011, New York. Exhibition at the National Arts Club.
- 2013, Kyiv. Exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine
- 2014, Odesa. Exhibition at the
- 2020, Moscow. at the State Museum of Oriental Art
- 2021, Moscow. at the State Tretyakov Gallery
- 2021, Kemerovo. at the
- 2021, Odesa. Exhibition at the
Membership in artistic unions
- 1910, Odessa. Association of South-Russian Artists
- 1915–18, Odessa. Society of the Independent
- 1918–19, Odessa. Association of Independent Artists
- 1921–22, Моscow. New Society of Painting
- 1926–27, Моscow. Association of artists of the revolutionary Russia
- 1932–79, Моscow. Moscow Regional Union of Soviet Artists, later renamed into Moscow Union of Soviet Artists, Moscow Department of the Union of Artiststs of the RSFSR, and Moscow Department of the Organisation of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR