Mikhail Bernshtein

Mikhail Bernshtein studied at Imperial Academy of Arts. Training under Ilya Repin is recorded. Mykyta Popenko-Kokhanyi, Viktor Antonovich Apanovich and Valentin Bernadskii are recorded as having studied under Mikhail Bernshtein. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and still life. Employment is recorded with National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture, Repin Institute of Arts and Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design.

• Name — Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein • Born — 28 January 1875 • Birthplace — Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire • Died — 9 May 1960 • Place of death — Leningrad, USSR • Field — Painting, Teaching • Training — Imperial Academy of Arts • Movement — Realism

Mikhail Bernshtein was born on 28 January 1875 in Rostov-on-Don. He studied painting and drawing in London (1894–1899), Munich, Paris (1899–1901), visited Italy. In 1901-1903 Bernshtein studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he was a student of Ilya Repin. Since 1902 Mikhail Bernshtein begins to participate in art exhibitions. In 1907-1916 he taught in Saint Petersburg, where he hold private art school. He was married to artist Catherine Turova. In 1916-1924 he taught at art school in Zhitomir, in 1924–1932 at the Kyiv Art Institute. In 1932-1948 Bernshtein taught drawing in the Repin Institute of Arts in Leningrad. He wrote several articles and tutorials on drawing, as well as the book «Problems of teaching drawing». In 1948-1950 he taught also in Vera Mukhina Institute of Industrial Art. In 1930-1940 Mikhail Bernshtein made a great contribution to the system of Soviet Art education and artistic training of highly qualified young artists. During the Great Patriotic War his son Sandro went to the front as soldier and was missing.