Oil painting Place to rest Gantman Moses Faybovich

№Verns 336


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Place to rest"
* ARTISTS: Gantman Moses Faybovich
* SIZE: 35x51 cm/'13.77x20.07 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.
Moses Faybovich Gantman was born December 5, 1922 in a large Jewish family in the village. Dukora, Minsk region of Belarus.
On the recommendation of the famous Leningrad artist Pavel Zaltsman (member of the art association of students and followers P. Filonov "Masters of Analytical Art") in 1938 he entered the Vitebsk Art College. The training was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.
Since November 1941, Moses Gantman 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".
In the evacuation, Gantman met the well-known Ukrainian artist (student N. Pimonenko and A. Murashko) A. Cherkassky, who advised and helped Moses to enter the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1943 as a film artist. Academicians P.I. Kotov and F.S. Bogorodsky became its teachers. During his studies in Moscow, he maintained friendly relations with outstanding Soviet painters Yu.I. Pimenov and P.P. Konchalovsky. In 1949, Moses Gantman defended his diploma and was assigned to work at the Kiev film studio.
Since 1949, the production designer of the film studio named after A. Dovzhenko, where he worked with A. Buchma, S. Bondarchuk, S. Parajanov, I. Savchenko. Major works: design of the feature films “Taras Shevchenko” (1951), “Earth” (1954), “One Fine Day” (1955), “Born of 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 world was revealed, a sense of color and texture. His winter landscapes were loved by T.N. Yablonskaya.
In the late 1980s, frontal wounds reminded themselves and an unsuccessful operation confined Moses Faybovich to bed until the end of his life. To the best of his ability, the artist continued to work, preferring drawing and pastels
He died on August 9, 2010.
The works of Geithman M.F. presented in museum and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.