Gavriil Kondratievich Malish (russian: Гаврии́л Кондра́тьевич Ма́лыш; March 25, 1907, in Kitaygorodka,
Ekaterinoslav Province,
Ukraine,
Russian Empire – October 25, 1998, in
Saint Petersburg,
Russian Federation) was a Soviet, Russian painter, watercolorist, and graphic artist, lived and worked in
Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the
Leningrad school of painting,
[''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.24, 364, 390-397, 399, 400, 403, 405, 407, 439, 443, 445.] most famous for his decorative still lifes and landscapes.
Biography
Gavriil Kondratievich Malish was born March 25, 1907, in Kitaygorodka village, near
Ekaterinoslav,
Ukraine,
Russian Empire.
In 1934 Gavriil Malish graduated from
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
Art Institute, where he studied of A. Gaush and T. Fraermann. Since 1935 he lived and worked in
Leningrad.
Since 1954 Gavriil Malish has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings, worked in oil painting, watercolors, and pastel. The most known as master of watercolors. Personol exhibition of Gavriil Malish were in
Leningrad (1975, 1976, 1977, 1985, 1988), Saint Petersburg (1996, 1997), and Stockholm (1991).
The leading place in the Art of Gavriil Malish takes a lyrical landscape and decorative still life. The untiring search for the artist in the field of colors predetermined his address to the decorative painting, to the synthesis of colors, where dominated his favorite light-blue and blue, lilac, cherry and violet hues, providing major sounding painting.
Gavriil Malish almost always has painted his works from memory, by notion, so, they are distinguished by special emotional excitement, saturation and color purity.
Gavriil Malish was a member of the
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 -
) since 1955.
Gavriil Kondratievich Malish died on October 25, 1998 in
Saint Petersburg. His painting and watercolors reside in
State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, Sweden, Norway, England, USA, China, Japan, and other countries.
See also
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Leningrad School of Painting
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List of Russian artists
This is a list of Russians artists. In this context, the term "Russian" covers the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities living in Ru ...
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List of 20th-century Russian painters
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List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
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List of the Russian Landscape painters
This is a list of landscape painters of the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, and Russian Empire, both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes painters who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those born e ...
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Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
References
Sources
* ''Gavriil Malish. Painting''. - Saint Petersburg: Ikar Publishing, 1994.
* ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 24, 364, 390-397, 399, 400, 403, 405, 407, 439, 443, 445. , .
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1907 births
1998 deaths
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
Russian watercolorists
Leningrad School artists
Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists
Socialist realist artists
Landscape artists
20th-century Russian male artists