Yelizarov Yusuf (Yusufkhai) Ifraimovich. Born in the city of Samarkand. A native of Bukhara Jews. Soviet painter, mainly portraitist, Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1964), teacher. ‘Made a great and valuable contribution to the art of Soviet Uzbekistan’ (Shostko, 1982). He studied at the Samarkand Art School (1935-1941) under Pavel Petrovich Benkov, at the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov (1942-1949), and at the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov (1942-1949) in the workshops of Sergey Vasilievich Gerasimov and Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar. Participant of exhibitions since 1949. Solo... далее

Yelizarov Yusuf (Yusufkhai) Ifraimovich. Born in the city of Samarkand. A native of Bukhara Jews. Soviet painter, mainly portraitist, Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1964), teacher. ‘Made a great and valuable contribution to the art of Soviet Uzbekistan’ (Shostko, 1982). He studied at the Samarkand Art School (1935-1941) under Pavel Petrovich Benkov, at the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov (1942-1949), and at the Moscow Art Institute named after Surikov (1942-1949) in the workshops of Sergey Vasilievich Gerasimov and Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar. Participant of exhibitions since 1949. Solo exhibitions were held in 1969, 1975 and 2012 in Tashkent and in 1982 in Samarkand. Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1964). Soviet painter, adherent of socialist realism, whose paintings are distinguished by a special, natural, inherent colourfulness, impressionism of his teachers and, later, expressionism, corresponding to the soul of a truth-teller. Predominantly a portrait painter. From 1949 to 1954 he taught at the Tashkent Art School, at the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute (1955 - 1957) and at the Pedagogical Institute (1955 - 1974) as head of the department of drawing and painting. In landscapes, especially architectural, depicted his region, in which he conveyed ‘the feeling of poetic value of the world of nature and the world of people’. Y.I. Elizarov's works are exibited in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museums of Arts of Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan, Tajikistan, the Astrakhan Picture Gallery, the Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature, and in private collections. A large collection of paintings is located in the artist's homeland, in the city he loved and dedicated many works to - in the city of Samarkand, in the Museum of History and Culture of Art of the Nations of Uzbekistan. скрыть