Portrait Album. Subjects of these portraits include Ch. N. Bialik, Rabbi Jacob Mase, and a self-portrait of Pasternak himself.

PASTERNAK, LEONID.

Yibneh Verlag

Berlin

1923

Introduction by Hermann Struck in Hebrew and English. Eight colored portrait plates. Loose as issued in original color pictorial portfolio.

Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, (born Yitzhok-Leib, in 1862), was was one of the first Russian Impressionist artists. 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 artist, Isidor Kaufman, and the same year settled in Moscow. Their firstborn child (1890) was the celebrated poet Boris Pasternak. In 1921 Leonid Pasternak traveled to Berlin for eye surgery accompanied by his wife and two daughters, leaving his sons in Russia. Subsequently, the family decided not to return to Russia, remaining in Berlin until 1938 whereupon they took refuge from the Nazis in Great Britain. Leonid Pasternak died in Oxford in 1945.