David Shterenberg

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Self portrait

David Petrovich Shterenberg (

graphic artist
.

Life

Born to a

Odessa and then from 1906-1912 based himself in Paris where he studied with, amongst others, Kees van Dongen.[citation needed
] He studied at the Académie Vitti in Paris.[1] He was influenced by the works of Paul Cézanne and by Cubism.

He made return visits to Russia but did not settle there until after the

Lissitzky
, in Moscow. From 1918 to 1920 he was the Head of the Department of Fine Arts (IZO) of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment (NARKOMPROS). In 1918 he published his programmatic essay Tasks of Contemporary Art in the News of the Petrograd Council.

In 1920 Shterenberg was the Director of the Department of Fine Arts (IZO) at the People's Commissariat for Education. In this role he organised the funding of the Moscow based Institute of Artistic Culture (INKhUK). He explained that "We organised the INKhUK as a cell for the determination of scientific hypotheses on matters of art".[2]

From 1920 to 1930 Shterenberg taught at the

VKhUTEMAS. He showed at an exhibition of Jewish artists in Moscow in 1922 which also featured Marc Chagall. In the same year he wrote an essay for the catalogue of the First Russian Art Exhibition at the Gallery van Diemen, in Berlin. However his independent style ceased to find favour with the Soviet authorities and gradually his work was withdrawn from public view. After the 1930s he was forced to work in a more 'realistic' style. By his death in 1948 he was virtually forgotten. He is buried in Vagankovo Cemetery
in Moscow.

Shterenberg was deeply conscious of his Jewish roots. He wrote to his wife Nadezhda: 'I have an Oriental blood in my veins, blood of my forebears who wrote the 'Song of Songs', - and there's no better song.'[3]'

Today his work is on view in public galleries in Moscow (

Ekaterinburg
. Much is still held in private collections in Russia.

Links to pictures

Sources

  • Lazarev, Mikhail (ed.), (2000).David Shterenberg. Moscow.
    ISBN 978-5-8163-0013-1

Notes

  1. ^ "Vitti, ??-??", The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, University of Glasgow, retrieved 2017-07-17
  2. ISBN 9780520226180
    . Retrieved 10 February 2018.: 23 
  3. ^ Lazarev, (2000), p. 11
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