Gavriil Malish

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Gavriil Kondratievich Malish
Realism

Gavriil Kondratievich Malish (Russian: Гаврии́л Кондра́тьевич Ма́лыш; March 25, 1907 – October 25, 1998) was a Soviet, Russian painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[1] most famous for his decorative still lifes and landscapes.

Biography

Malish was born March 25, 1907, in Kitaygorodka village, near

Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire
.

In 1934 Malish graduated from

Leningrad
.

Since 1954 Malish participated in art exhibitions. He painted landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings, worked in oil painting, watercolors, and pastel. The most known as master of watercolors. Malish's personal exhibitions were in

Leningrad
(1975, 1976, 1977, 1985, 1988), Saint Petersburg (1996, 1997), and Stockholm (1991).

The leading place in Malish's art takes a lyrical landscape and decorative still life. The untiring search for the artist in the field of colors predetermined his address to the decorative painting, to the synthesis of colors, where dominated his favorite light-blue and blue, lilac, cherry and violet hues, providing major sounding painting.

Malish almost always painted his works from memory, by notion, so, they are distinguished by special emotional excitement, saturation and color purity.

Malish was a member of the

Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation
) since 1955.

Malish died on October 25, 1998, in

State Russian Museum
, in art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Sweden, Norway, England, US, China, Japan, and other countries.

See also

References

  1. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.24, 364, 390-397, 399, 400, 403, 405, 407, 439, 443, 445.

Sources

  • Gavriil Malish. Painting. - Saint Petersburg: Ikar Publishing, 1994.
  • Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 24, 364, 390–397, 399, 400, 403, 405, 407, 439, 443, 445. .