Isaak Brodsky

Isaak Brodsky studied at Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts and Hrekov Odesa Art school. Training under Luigi Iorini, Kyriak Kostandi and Ilya Repin is recorded. Victor Oreshnikov, Borys Kupnevskyi and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov are recorded as having studied under Isaak Brodsky. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, landscape, thematic picture and history. Work by Isaak Brodsky is recorded in the collections of Tate, Tretyakov Gallery, State Historical Museum, National Museum in Warsaw and Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts. Distinctions recorded are Order of Lenin and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

• Name — Isaak Brodsky • Birth Name — Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky • Birthplace — Sofiyivka, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 14 August 1939 • Place of death — Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR • Resting Place — Literatorskiye Mostki, Saint Petersburg • Children — Two, including Lidiya Brodskaya • Relatives — Fyodor Reshetnikov (son-in-law) • Movement — Socialist realism • Awards — Order of Lenin Honoured Worker of the Arts Industry of the RSFSR • Field — Painting • Education — Odesa Art Academy Imperial Academy of Arts • Illustration — Self-portrait

• Illustration — Portrait of Brodsky by Ilya Repin, 1913 Brodsky was born in the village of Sofiyivka near Berdiansk in modern day Ukraine to Yisrael, a Jewish merchant. He studied at Odesa Art Academy and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. For five years he studied at the Academy under Ilya Repin. In 1916, he joined the Jewish Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. When Brodsky asked Lenin to autograph his painting Lenin, he said: "I am signing to what I don't agree with for the first time". Brodsky was on good terms with many leading Russian painters, including his mentor, Ilya Repin. He was an avid art collector who donated numerous first-class paintings to museums in his native Ukraine and elsewhere. His art collection included important works by Repin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, Isaak Levitan, Mikhail Vrubel, and Boris Kustodiev. Brodsky was an Honoured Worker of the Arts Industry of the RSFSR and a member of the Union of Russian Artists. He was the first painter to be awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1934, he was appointed Director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. From 1934 to 1939, he was also a head of personal Art workshop in institute, where his pupils included the well-known Soviet painters: Nikolai Timkov, Aleksandr Laktionov, Yuri Neprintsev, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Vasiliev, Mikhail Kozell and others.

• Illustration — Ludmila Burluk, 1906 • Illustration — Maria Andreyeva, 1910 • Illustration — Self-Portrait, featuring the painter's then toddler daughter Lidiya, 1911 • Illustration — Ilya Repin, 1912 • Illustration — Korney Chukovsky, 1915 • Illustration — Alexander Kerensky, c. 1917–1918 • Illustration — Vladimir Lenin in Front of Smolny, 1925 • Illustration — Mikhail Frunze, 1929 • Illustration — Joseph Stalin, 1935 • Illustration — Maxim Gorky, 1937 • Illustration — A Worker's Funeral, 1906 • Illustration — Italy, 1911 • Illustration — Fairy Tale, 1911 • Illustration — Children on the Lawn, 1913 • Illustration — The Opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, 1920–1924 • Illustration — The Passing of the Communards' Banner to the Moscow Workers, c. 1924 • Illustration — The Execution of the Baku Commissars, 1925 • Illustration — Lenin at the Putilov Factory, May 1917, 1929 • Illustration — Lenin in Smolny, 1930 • Illustration — A Demonstration on 25 October Prospect, 1934 • Illustration — New Moon, 1906 • Illustration — Akademicheskaya Dacha, 1907 • Illustration — At the Evening, 1911 • Illustration — Golden Autumn, 1913 • Illustration — Alley in a Park, 1930

The authorities additionally record the headings Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky, Isaak Izrailovich Brodsky, Isaac Israiljewitsh Brodsky, Isaak Israil'evič Brodskij and Isaak Izrailevich Brodskǐi. His recorded language was Russian. One child is recorded: Lidiya Brodskaya.

Isaak Brodsky is recorded as having studied at Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts and Hrekov Odesa Art school.