Oil painting It's a nasty day Gantman Moisey Faibovich

№Verns 482


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "It's a nasty day"
* ARTISTS: Gantman Moisey Faibovich
* SIZE: 48x39 cm/'18.89x15.35 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: Ukrainian painter, film artist.
Moisey Faibovich Gantman was born on December 5, 1922 in a large Jewish family in the village. Dukor, Minsk region of Belarus.
On the recommendation of the famous Leningrad artist Pavel Zaltsman (a member of the artistic association of students and followers of P. Filonov "Masters of Analytical Art"), in 1938 he entered the Vitebsk Art School. The training was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.
Since November 1941, Moses Gantman is at the front. Member of the defense of Moscow. In August 1942 he was seriously wounded and evacuated to Alma-Ata. He was awarded the medal "For Courage".
During the evacuation, Gantman met the famous Ukrainian artist (pupil of N. Pimonenko and A. Murashko) A. Cherkassky, who advised and helped Moses to enter the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in the specialty of film artist in 1943. Academicians P.I..Kotov and F.S. Bogorodsky became its teachers. During his studies in Moscow, he maintained friendly relations with prominent Soviet painters Yu.I. Pimenov and P.P. Konchalovsky. In 1949, Moisey Gantman defended his diploma and received a job assignment at the Kiev Film Studio.
Since 1949 - art director of the film studio named after I. A. Dovzhenko, where he worked with A. Buchma, S. Bondarchuk, S. Paradzhanov, I. Savchenko. Major works: design for feature films "Taras Shevchenko" (1951), "Earth" (1954), "One Fine Day" (1955), "Born by the Storm" (1957), "If You Love" (1959) ), "Makar Dibrova" (1960), "Ukrainian Rhapsody" (1961), "Blue Arrow" (1962), etc.
Gantman M.F. - participant of art exhibitions: republican - since 1954, all-Union - since 1955, foreign - since 1957.
Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1961.
In 1964 he went to work in the creative and production association "Artist".
He worked in the field of easel painting. The most striking in the work of M.F. Gaitman was the landscape. It was in him that an individual and subtle vision of the surrounding world, a sense of color and texture, was revealed. T.N. Yablonskaya loved his winter landscapes.
In the late 1980s, front-line wounds reminded of themselves and an unsuccessful operation made Moisey Faibovich bedridden for the rest of his life. To the best of his ability, the artist continued to work, giving preference to drawing and pastels
He died on August 9, 2010.
The works of M.F. Gaitman are presented in museum and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.