Chaim Nachaman Bialik & Max Osborn. L. Pasternak - His Life and Work.

(PASTERNAK, LEONID)

Stybel

Berlin

1924

Twenty full-color plates on thick paper and further illustrated with 73 in-text and 74 full-page reproductions of Pasternak’s works. 98 text-pages in Hebrew, illustrations also captioned in English and Russian.

This is the only monograph of the acclaimed Jewish artist Leonid Pasternak. Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, (born Yitzhok-Leib in 1862) grew up in the same town as Marc Chagall and was was one of the first Russian painters who described himself as an Impressionist. He studied in Moscow and Munich and was a member of the Polenov Circle that included Valentin Serov, Isaac Levitan, Mikhail Nesterov and Konstantin Korovin. In 1889 Pasternak married the pianist Rosa Kaufman, daughter of another famous Jewish painter, Isidor Kaufman, and the same year settled in Moscow. Of their four children, their first born (1890) was the celebrated poet and Nobel Prize recipient, Boris Pasternak. In 1921 Leonid Pasternak travelled to Berlin for eye surgery accompanied by his wife and two daughters, leaving their sons in the Soviet Union. Subsequently, the family decided not to return, remaining in Berlin until 1938 whereupon they took refuge from the Nazis in England. Leonid Pasternak died in Oxford in 1945.