Brummer Leonid. Soviet artist. Member of the Artists Union (1937). Representatives of the noble branch of the family in the XVII-XVIII centuries. His father was Vladimir Alexandrovich Von Brummer, a German, and his mother was Maria Gutierre, a Frenchwoman. He was born on 1 September 1889 in the Ukraine in Kherson. Immediately after graduating from gymnasium in 1910, he entered the Kiev Art School in the still life class. In 1915, when entering the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, the young artist's works were highly appreciated by Professor... далее

Brummer Leonid. Soviet artist. Member of the Artists Union (1937). Representatives of the noble branch of the family in the XVII-XVIII centuries. His father was Vladimir Alexandrovich Von Brummer, a German, and his mother was Maria Gutierre, a Frenchwoman. He was born on 1 September 1889 in the Ukraine in Kherson. Immediately after graduating from gymnasium in 1910, he entered the Kiev Art School in the still life class. In 1915, when entering the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, the young artist's works were highly appreciated by Professor A. H. Dubrovsky, who noted ‘a rare eye, excellent sense of colours and colouring’. In the same year he entered the Petrograd Academy of Arts, but due to lack of funds he was forced to interrupt his studies and return to Kiev. Having returned to Kiev, Brummer plunged into the exhibition element. The year 1917 was a turning point in the artist's fate. Because of his ‘non-Russian’ origin LV Brummer wandered all over Russia. But little-studied biography of the artist can only guess about the hardships that he had to endure. Judging by the surviving paintings, he lived in the Crimea, Ukraine, Kabardino-Balkaria. In his record list there are various places of work: photographer-retoucher in the newspaper, artist-designer and head of the art studio. He lived and worked in Yalta, Orel, Nalchik, from where in 1941 he was deported to Pavlodar region. From 1955 to 1971 he lived in Dzhambul, leading an unremarkable existence as an artist-designer of the city park. L.V. Brummer died on 1 November 1971 at the age of 82 in a nursing home. He did not sell his works during his lifetime, and bequeathed to the state museum of Zhambyl region about 1000 of his works and more than twenty paintings by other artists. He lest to the museum his books on art history, which he collected together with his brother for 50 years. The artist left, leaving behind immortal creations and a dream of creating an art gallery in Dzhambul (now Taraz). With the support of the German Embassy in Kazakhstan, more than a thousand of his works were restored and placed in the halls of the Leonid Brummer Art Museum opened in 2000. The works of the artist are kept in the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after A. Kasteev, the Leonid Brummer Art Museum, Taraz. There are also in private collections. Brummer's paintings were exhibited in Paris at the International Conference at UNESCO Headquarters. скрыть