Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Ко́зелл; October 20, 1911 – July 26, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(now Saint-Petersburg), and who belonged to the

Leningrad School of Painting The Leningrad School of Painting (russian: Ленинградская школа живописи) is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was uni ...

, most famous for his landscape painting.

Biography

Kozell was born October 20, 1911 in

Astrakhan Astrakhan ( rus, Астрахань, p=ˈastrəxənʲ) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in Southern Russia. The city lies on two banks of the Volga, in the upper part of the Volga Delta, on eleven islands of the ...

. In 1939 Mikhail Kozell graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in

Isaak Brodsky Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky (russian: Исаак Израилевич Бродский; uk, Іса́к Ізраїльович Бро́дський, – 14 August 1939) was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movem ...

workshop. Pupil of

Mikhail Bernshtein Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein (russian: Михаил Давидович Бернштейн) (January 28, 1875, Rostov-on-Don – May 9, 1960, Leningrad) was a Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the ...

, Arcady Rylov,

Alexander Lubimov Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Люби́мов, ; February 25, 1879, a village of Paltsevo, Kursk Province, Russian Empire – 1955, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet reali ...

, Vladimir Serov. Since 1949 Mikhail Kozell participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre pictures, sketches from the life. Mikhail Kozell was a member of the

Saint Petersburg Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

since 1962. In 1948-1991 Mikhail Kozell worked as an Art teacher of Secondary Art School of Ilya Repin Institute in Leningrad. Mikhail Georgievich Kozell died on July 26, 1993, in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

at 82 years of age. Paintings by Mikhail Kozell reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, U.S., England, Japan,''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154. and throughout the world.

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*''Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue''. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. -p. 14. *''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154. *''Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1978. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue''. — Tokyo, 1978. - р.58. *''Mikhail Kozell. Painting. Drawings. Exhibition of works. Catalogue''. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989. *''Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s''. - London: Izomar, 1998. , . *''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.''- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 15, 20, 361, 390, 392, 394–398, 400–405, 445. , . {{DEFAULTSORT:Kozell, Mikhail 1911 births 1993 deaths People from Astrakhan People from Astrakhan Governorate 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Soviet painters Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists Socialist realist artists Leningrad School artists Repin Institute of Arts alumni 20th-century Russian male artists

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