Osip Braz
{{short description|Russian painter (1873–1936)}}
{{Infobox artist
| native_name = Осип Браз
| image = Osip Braz, from the Annual Report of the Imperial Academy of Arts, c. 1914, Pushkin Museum ГРЗ-3117 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Braz in 1914; phototype
| birth_name = Osip Emmanuilovich Braz
| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|1|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|11|6|1873|1|10|df=y}}
| death_place = near Paris, France
| resting_place = Bagneux Cemetery, Paris
| notable_works = Anton Chekhov, 1897–1898
| field = Portrait painting
| elected = {{Imperial Academy of Arts|Member|1914}}
}}
{{External media
|image1=Georgy Vereisky, [https://collections.hermitage.ru/entity/OBJECT/1420058 Osip Braz], 1922, lithograph; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
|image2=Serge Ivanoff, [https://www.flickr.com/photos/66445082@N02/8142394848 Osip Braz], 1933, oil on canvas; private collection}}
Osip Emmanuilovich Braz ({{langx|ru|О́сип Эммануи́лович Браз}}; {{OldStyleDate|22 January|1873|10 January}}For further validation on Braz's birthdate and extended family, see {{Cite journal |last=Fyodorova |first=I. S. |date=2011 |title=Об уточнении биографии О. Э. Браза: одесский период |journal=Вестник Орловского государственного университета. Новые гуманитарные исследования |language=ru |location=Oryol |publisher=Oryol State University |issue=19 |pages=376–377 |issn=1997-9878}} – 6 November 1936) was a Russian-Jewish painter during the Modernist period, best known for his portraits.
Biography
He began his art education in Odessa, now Ukraine, and continued it in Munich (1891–1893), where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. During his stay in Europe he studied Western European painting, which had a significant influence on his work. After Germany, he went to Paris, and then to the Netherlands where he studied the Dutch masters. The thorough knowledge of painting he gained played an important role in his future as an artist. In 1895-1896, he attended the Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, studying in the workshop of Ilya Repin.
In the following years, a series of portraits of fellow artists, including Leonid Pasternak and Sergey Ivanov, and prominent figures of Russian culture done for Pavel Tretyakov brought Braz fame. His best known work was his 1898 portrait of the writer Anton Chekhov. His talent was also displayed in his landscapes of France, the Crimea, and Finland, originating in his travels to the places mentioned. From 1900 to 1905 he gave lessons in his studio on the Moyka River. In 1907 Braz went to France, where he lived until 1911. The latest achievements of French art influenced his work. In 1914, Braz was elected an Imperial Academician,{{Cite book |last=Imperial Academy of Arts |first=Petrograd |author-link=Imperial Academy of Arts |url=https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000003841/view/?#page=17 |title=Отчет Императорской Академии художеств за 1914 год |date=1915 |publisher=Sirius |location=Petrograd |at=p. 11; ill. between pp. 30–31 |language=ru}} and a member of the commission for the restoration of paintings by the Hermitage Museum. In the first years of Soviet rule, he was appointed curator of the Hermitage.{{cite web |url=http://www.maslovka.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1775 |title=Maslovka.org |language=Russian |accessdate=February 29, 2012}}
In 1924 Braz was arrested on false charges of buying paintings for export abroad, and espionage, and was then imprisoned for three years in Solovki prison camp, while his art collections, including important Dutch works from the 17th century, were confiscated and made state property. In late 1926, he was released at the request of the Leningrad artistic societies. In order to avoid more trouble he moved to Germany in 1928, and then settled in Paris.{{cite web |url=http://newclassics.ru/glossary/236/ |title=New Classics |language=Russian |accessdate=February 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221013916/http://www.newclassics.ru/glossary/236/ |archivedate=February 21, 2010 }} He spent the last years of his life in Paris, where he continued painting, trading antiques and collecting.
Selected paintings
File:Chekhov 1898 by Osip Braz.jpg|Anton Chekhov (1898)
File:Braz Leningrad.jpg|Saint Petersburg (c. 1915)
File:Ossip Braz Küchenstillleben.jpg|Still-life with Vegetables and Fish
File:Braz Tolstaya.jpg|Countess Elena Tolstaya (1900)
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Benois |first=Aleksandr N. |author-link=Alexandre Benois |title=Художественные письма, 1930–1936 |date=1997 |publisher=Galart |isbn=5-269-00919-6 |editor-last=Khabarov |editor-first=I. P. |location=Moscow |pages=356–360 |language=ru |chapter=Браз |editor-last2=Sternin |editor-first2=Grigory Yu. |editor-link2=:ru:Стернин, Григорий Юрьевич |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/1930-1936.-.-1997/page/356/mode/2up}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Zaytsev |first=Alexander D. |author-link=Alexander Zaytsev (artist) |date=1975 |title=Профессор Академии художеств О. Э. Браз |journal=Вопросы художественного образования |language=ru |location=Leningrad |publisher=Repin Institute of Fine Arts |issue=14 |pages=43–59}}
- {{Cite web |last=Leykind |first=Oleg L. |last2=Makhrov |first2=Kirill V. |author-link2=:ru:Махров, Кирилл Василевич |last3=Severyukhin |first3=Dmitry Ya. |author-link3=:ru:Северюхин, Дмитрий Яковлевич |name-list-style=and |date=March 22, 2012 |title=Браз Осип (Иосиф) Эммануилович |url=https://artrz.ru/menu/1804645939/1804782652.html |access-date=April 7, 2025 |website=Искусство и архитектура русского зарубежья |publisher=Likhachev Foundation |language=ru |publication-place=Saint Petersburg}}
- {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Браз, Осип (Иосиф) Эммануилович |encyclopedia=Художники народов СССР |publisher=Iskusstvo |location=Moscow |date=1972 |editor-last=Voltsenburg |editor-first=Oskar E. |editor-link=:ru:Вольценбург, Оскар Эдуардович |volume=2 |pages=58–59 |language=ru |display-editors=etal}}
External links
- [https://rah.ru/the_academy_today/the_members_of_the_academie/member.php?ID=52561 Osip Braz] at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website {{in lang|ru}}
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