Eduard Puterbrot

Puterbrot's works can be found in: • Central theatre museum named after A.A.Bahrushin, Moscow • State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts, Makhachkala • National Museum of the Republic of Dagestan named after Alibek Takho-Godi, Makhachkala • Directorate of Art Exhibitions of USSR • Art Collection of Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, Moscow • Center of Stas Namin • Corporate and private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, USA.

• Name — Eduard Moiseevich Puterbrot (Эдуард Моисеевич Путерброт) • Birth Name — Eduard Moiseevich Puterbrot, (Эдуард Моисеевич Путерброт) • Born — 12 September 1940 • Birthplace — Makhachkala, Dagestan • Died — 15 November 1993 • Place of death — Makhachkala, Dagestan • Field — Painting, Art • Training — Dagestan State University, Makhachkala • Movement — symbolism • Website — http: puterbrot.com/

• Illustration — Morning Still Life. 1979. Cardboard, oil painting. 76 x 75 Based on the information from the Album-catalogue of works 1965—1993: • 1947-1957 - studied in the visual arts workshop in the House of Young Pioneers and the House of Folk Arts • 1957-1962 - studied in Dagestan State University on the physics and mathematics faculty • 1962 – started teaching draftsmanship, descriptive geometry, geometry and perspective in Dagestan Art School named after M.A.Djemal • 1975 – became a member of Artists’ Union of USSR; started working as the chief designer/decorator of Kumyk Music and Drama Theatre named after A.P.Salavatov • 1979 – received the title of laureate of Republic Prize of Dagestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic named after Gamzat Tsadasa • 1980 - received the Diploma of USSR-wide contest of German (GDR) dramaturgy on Soviet stage for decorating the play named «Mann ist Mann» (Man Equals Man) by Bertolt Brecht • 1981 - received the title of Honoured Art Worker of Dagestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic • 1985-1993 – worked as the chief designer/decorator of Russian State Theatre of Drama named after Maxim Gorky • 1990-1991 – creative journeys to Germany (Blankenheim, Oldenburg), France, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia • 1993 – came to a tragic end

• Illustration — Love Game. 1993. Canvas, tempera, oil painting. 80 x 72 According to William Meyland, «Eduard Puterbrot was universal: theatre set design, painting, easel graphics, poster, small plastic art». «The artist viewed all the landscape of mountainous country surrounding him from the childhood as a huge theater stage. Dagestan nourished his art work constantly.» As evaluated by the art critic, Puterbrot had refuted the known formula by Rudyard Kipling (from The Ballad of East and West) "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet". In his rendition the East and West were shifting and combining. He was a rare connoisseur of culture and art of multilingual peoples of Dagestan, but he also strove to see the whole world and avidly interested himself in contemporary art, frequently came to Moscow and other art centers of the country. • Illustration — Sunny Day. 1977. Paper board, oil painting. 103 x 80 According to the Moscow art scholar Ivan Kuptsov: «Eduard Puterbrot, like no other, was true to the Dagestan traditions, high culture of effulgent, but subtle light combinations. … His art works are perspicacious, figurative, they possess the scale and epic nature, … where each detail is transformed by his intuition»". «Eduard Puterbrot understood painting not as the music through color, but as writing through color, and in that peculiarity is his fundamental distinction from the lack of subject as an experiment and the color and form creation», — wrote painter Yuri Avgustovich. Eduard Puterbrot was working on the «translation» of symbolics of ancient rituals, sacral images, legends of Dagestan into the language of contemporary art. As noted by the art scholar and critic Viktor Martynov, «The legends, stories, myths, and fairy-tales of highland peoples intertwined in his aesthetic consciousness in a tight clew of impulsive passions, intuitive insights, unexpected associations and reader-book reminiscences».

• Illustration — Mountains. 1989. Canvas, oil painting. 70 х 56 • Illustration — Still Life on Green. 1978. Cardboard, oil painting. 67 х 83