Mikhail Kozell
Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (October 20, 1911 – July 26, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), and who belonged to the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for his landscape painting.
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Mikhail Kozell
- Name
- Mikhail Georgievich Kozell
- Born
- October 20, 1911
- Birthplace
- Astrakhan, Russian Empire
- Died
- July 26, 1993
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Field
- Painting, Art teaching
- Training
- Repin Institute of Arts
- Movement
- Realism
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Teachers
- Pavel Vlasov
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Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (October 20, 1911 – July 26, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), and who belonged to the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for his landscape painting.
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2011-30-80 Medal, Soviet Union, Combat Service, Reverse

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Biography
Biography
Mikhail Kozell studied at Repin Institute of Arts. Training under Pavel Vlasov is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mikhail Georgievich Kozell • Born — October 20, 1911 • Birthplace — Astrakhan, Russian Empire • Died — July 26, 1993 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russia • Field — Painting, Art teaching • Training — Repin Institute of Arts • Movement — Realism
Biography
Biography
Kozell was born October 20, 1911, in Astrakhan. In 1939 Kozell graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Isaak Brodsky workshop. Pupil of Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov. Since 1949 Kozell participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre pictures, sketches from the life. Kozell was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1962. In 1948-1991 Kozell worked as an art teacher of Secondary Art School of Ilya Repin Institute in Leningrad. Kozell died on July 26, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at 82 years of age. Paintings by Kozell reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, U.S., England, Japan, and throughout the world.
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- 1.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.15, 20, 361, 390, 392, 394-398, 400-405, 445.
- 2.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
- 3.Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. -p. 14.
- Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154.
- Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1978. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1978. - р.58.
- Mikhail Kozell. Painting. Drawings. Exhibition of works. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989.
- Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. , .
- Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 15, 20, 361, 390, 392, 394–398, 400–405, 445. , .
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