Abram Markovich Cherkassky. Artist, painter and teacher. National artist of the Kazakh SSR (1963). Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR (1956). He was born in the town of Belaya Tserkva, near Kiev, Ukraine. Interest in drawing was awakened very early. He studied at the Kiev Art School. In the 1900s he was a student at the Kiev Art School, and from 1909 to 1917 he studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, where his teachers were N. N. Dubovsky, N. S. Samokish and J. Tsionglinsky. From 1917 he... далее

Abram Markovich Cherkassky. Artist, painter and teacher. National artist of the Kazakh SSR (1963). Honoured Art Worker of the Kazakh SSR (1956). He was born in the town of Belaya Tserkva, near Kiev, Ukraine. Interest in drawing was awakened very early. He studied at the Kiev Art School. In the 1900s he was a student at the Kiev Art School, and from 1909 to 1917 he studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, where his teachers were N. N. Dubovsky, N. S. Samokish and J. Tsionglinsky. From 1917 he lived in Vinnitsa. In 1926 - 1937 he was a teacher and from 1935 - a lecturer. From 1926 to 1937 he was a teacher and from 1935 a professor at the Kiev Art Institute. - Professor at the Kiev Art Institute. Many works created by Cherkassky during this period, bear the imprint of passion for impressionist painting, the desire for freshness, beauty in the transfer of the depicted. These tendencies the artist remained faithful to the end of his days. In 1937 - 1940 because of Stalin's policy he was convicted as a Polish spy and exiled to the Karlag near Karaganda. In 1940 he returned to Kiev, in 1941 the family evacuated to Aktobe. From Aktyubinsk he was called to Almaty as a teacher at the Almaty Art School, in 1941 - 1960 - professor at the Almaty Art School named after N.V.Gogol. In 1941-1960 he was a professor at the Almaty Art School named after N.V.Gogol (present-day Almaty Oral Tansykbaev College of Decorative and Applied Arts). Cherkassky painted numerous paintings, portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Landscape remains Cherkassky's favourite genre. In terms of colour, among the numerous works in this genre, ‘Noon’ (1957) and ‘Blooming May’ (1960) deserve more attention. Cherkassky's paintings are kept in the funds of the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after A. Kasteev, the State Museum of Ukrainian Art in Kiev. скрыть