Vladimir Weisberg

Vladimir Grigoryevich Weisberg (Russian: Владимир Григорьевич Вейсберг; born June 7, 1924 in Moscow, † January 1, 1985 ) was a Russian painter.

Work

From classical-modern positions (including Paul Cézanne ) starting, Weisberg found during the 1960s to a private, art theory informed view, which is essentially in the pursuit of the greatest possible reduction of the formal vocabulary ( geometrization of the image construction ) and picturesque low ( approaching a "non- colored " monochrome ) existed, but it clung to the objectivity. In the tonal values ​​only minimally modulated, quasi- monochromatic still lifes, nudes and portraits of women the picturesque oeuvre dominate, while in the graphic work and the Plein - Air Landscape Drawing plays a role.

Reception

Both within the Soviet - Russian art world as a largely isolated in the international art-historical context, Weisberg remained alive an outsider, whose works, with few exceptions (such as Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and Russian Museum in St. Petersburg ), primarily in private Collections input found.