Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, and Estonian Art in Benezit
Dr. Alla Rosenfeld, Guest Editor
In 2015 and 2016, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists was pleased to present a group of 36 new and over 90 significantly updated articles on Russian artists as well as 39 new biographies of Ukrainian, Latvian, and Estonian artists. These individual essays surveyed a wide range of styles and movements and characterize the key features of each artist’s work.
The extensive revisions cover Russian art of the 18th-20th centuries and contain a great deal of new scholarly information about such diverse Russian artists as Ivan Nikitin, Dmitry Levitsky, Semen Shchedrin, Konstantin Makovsky, Vassily Surikov, Isaak Levitan, and Leon Bakst. Important additions also include updates to various Russian artists’ bibliographies and auction records.
The update also includes well-deserved coverage of nonconformist art from the former Soviet Union, reflecting its complexity and diversity, and featuring biographies of such artists as Mikhail Shvartsman, Leonid Lamm, Igor Makarevich, Rimma Gerlovina, Valentyn Khrushch, Toomas Vint, Raul Meel, Ilmãrs Blumbergs, and Valdis Celms. We are particularly pleased to introduce many post-Soviet contemporary artists, currently working in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltics. These artists include Alexander Brodsky, Dmitry Gutov, Irina Korina, and Andrei Molodkin (Russia); Oleg Golosiy, Oleg Tistol, and Mykola Matsenko (Ukraine); Miervaldis Polis and Frančeska Kirke (Latvia).
The focus of Western art history has been overwhelmingly on Russian art while very few serious English-language studies were dedicated to the art of the former republics of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Latvia, and Estonia. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, these former republics became independent, sovereign states. Representing the many facets of artistic production in Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine during the 20th-21st centuries, new articles on artists of these nationalities may also serve as a good introduction to the history and culture of these regions.
2016
Aglaya Glebova
Anna Rogulina
Cristina Morandi
John E. Bowlt
Jeremy Canwell
Ksenia Nouril
Galina Mardilovich
Louise Hardiman
Margaret Samu
Nicky Kozicharow
Olena Martynyuk
ABOLS, Ojãrs
ANNUS, Siim-Tanel
ARRAK, Jüri
BAKHCHANYAN, Vagrich
BATYNKOV, Konstantin
BELYI, Petr
BĒRZIŊŠ, Boriss
BLUMBERGS, Ilmãrs
BORISOV-MUSATOV, Viktor Elpidiforovich
BRATKOV, Sergei
BRODSKY, Alexander
CELMS, Valdis
CHELUSHKIN, Kirill
DULFAN, Lucien
ELAGINA, Elena
ERMOLAEVA, Vera Mikhailovna
ESIPOVICH, Alla
FILIPPOV, Andrei
GELZIS, Kristaps
GERASIMOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
GERLOVIN, Valeryi
GERLOVINA, Rimma
GOLOSIY, Oleg
GUTOV, Dmitry
ILTNERE, Ieva
ISSUPOFF, Alessio
KESKKÜLA, Ando
KHRUSHCH, Valentin
KIRKE, Frančeska
KORINA, Irina
KOROVIN, Aleksei
KOUZNETSOFF, Constantin Pavlovich
Kuindzhi, Arkhip
KURISMAA, Kaarel
KUZKIN, Andrei
LAMM, Leonid Izrailevich
LAPIN, Leonhard
LOGINA, Zenta
MAKAREVICH, Igor
MAKOV, Pavlo
MAMSIKOV, Maksym
MAMYSHEV-MONROE, Vladislav
MATSENKO, Mykola
MEEL, Raul
MESHBERG, Lev
MIKHAILOV, Boris
MILIOTI, Nikolai Dmitrievich
MOLODKIN, Andrei
MUKHIN, Igor
NEY, Alexander
OKAS, Jüri
OSMOLOVSKY, Anatoly
OSTROUMOVA-LEBEDEVA, Anna Petrovna
PADEGS, Kãrlis
POLIS, Miervaldis
POLLISKY, Nikolay
PUSHNITSKY, Vitaly
RALKO, Vlada
REUNOV, Vinny
RUNGE, Sirje
ŠENBERGS, Georgs
SHORIN, Dmitry
SHVARTSMAN, Mikhail
SKUGAREVA, Marina
SOLOMKO, Yuri
TAMMIK, Rein
TIMM, Vasilii
TISTOL, Oleg
TOLTS, Andres
TROUBINA, Valeria
TSVETKOV, Dmitry
VINT, Tõnis
VINT, Toomas
YASTREB, Liudmila
ZHOLUD, Anya
ZUBOV, Aleksei Fedorovich
ALBERT, Youri Felixovitch
ALTMAN, Nathan Isaevich
ALTMANN, Aleksandr or Alexandre
ANISFELD, Boris Israilovich
ANNENKOV, Yuri or Jurii Pavlovisch, called Georges
BAKST, Léon
BARANOFF-ROSSINÉ, Vladimir Davidovich
BENOIS, Aleksander Nikolaevich
BENOIS, Aleksander Nikolaevich
BOGOLYUBOV, Aleksei Petrovich
BOGOMAZOV, Aleksandr or Alexandre Konstantinovich
BRUNI, Felice
BRUSKIN, Grisha
BULATOV, Erik Vladimir
BURLYUK, David Davidovich
CHARCHOUNE, Serge
CHARLAMOV, Aleksei Alekseevich
DEMUT-MALINOVSKY, Vasili Ivanovich
DOBUZHINSKY, Mstislav Valerianovich
DUBOVSKOI, Nicolay, or Nicolai Nikanorovich
FAIBISSOVITCH, Semion Nathanovitch
FALK, Robert Rafailovich
FECHIN, Nikolai Ivanovich
FÉRAT, Serge
GLUCKMANN, Grigory
GOLOVIN, Aleksandr Yakovlevich
GOLUBKINA, Anna Semionovna
GONCHAROVA, Natalia, or Natalya Sergeevna
GORBATOV, Konstantin Ivanovich
GOROKHOVSKY, Édouard Semenovich
GRABAR, Ygor Emanuelovich, or Igor, or Yegor Emman
GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich
ISUPOV, Aleksei or Alessio
KABAKOV, Ilya Iossifovitch
KALMAKOFF, Nikolaï or Nicolas
KANTOR, Maxim
KLEVER, Julius Sergius von or Yuliy Yulevich
KOMAR AND MELAMID, Vitaly and Aleksandr
KONCHALOVSKY, Piotr Petrovich
KOROVIN, Konstantin Alekseevich
KOSOLAPOV, Alexander
KOSTANDI, Kiriak Konstantinovich
KRASNOPEVTSEV, Dimitri
KRIGITZKY, Constantin
KRUGLIKOVA, Elizaveta
KULIK, Oleg
LARIONOV, Mikhail Fedorovich
LEIS, Malle
LEVITAN, Isaak Ilych or Il'ich
LEVITZKY, Dmitri Gregor'evich
MAKOVSKY, Aleksandr Vladimirovitch
MAKOVSKY, Konstantin Egorovich
MAKOVSKY, Nikolai
MAKOVSKY, Vladimir Egorovich
MALEVICH, Kasimir Severinovich
MALIAVAN, Philippe Andreyevitch
MALYAVIN, Filip Andreevich
MANEVICH, Abram Anshelevich
MANJEVITCH, Abram Anshelevich
MANJEWITSCH, Abram Anshelevich
MAREVNA
MASHKOV, Ilya Ivanovich
MATVEEV, Fedor or Theodor Mikhailovich
MCCHESNEY, Clara Taggart
NEMUKHIN, Vladimir Nikolaevich
NESTEROV, Mikhail Vasilievich or Michel V.
NIKITIN, Ivan Maksimovich
NOVIKOV, Timur
OVCHINNIKOV, Vladimir
PETROV-VODKIN, Kuzma Sergeevich
PIMENOV, Stepan Stepanovich
PIMENOV, Yuri Ivanovich or Georgiy
POLENOV, Vasily Dmitrievich
PURYGIN, Leonid
RABINE, Oskar Iakovlevitch
REDKO, Kliment Nikolaevich
REPIN, Ilya Efimovich
ROERICH, Nicolas
ROGINSKY, Mikhail
ROZANOVA, Ol'ga Vladimirovna
RUKHIN, Evgeny Lvovich or Eugène
SARYAN, Martiros Sergeevich
SAVADOV, Arseni Vladimirovich
SAVITSKY, Konstantin Apollonovich
SAVRASOV, Aleksei Kondratevich
SEREBRIAKOVA, Zinaida Evgenieva
SEROV, Valentin Alexandrovitch
SHCHEDRIN, Semen Fedorovich
SHISHKIN, Ivan Ivanovich
SOMOV, Konstantin Andreevich
SOMOV, Konstantin Andreevich
STELLETSKII, Dmitri Semenovich
SURIKOV, Vassily Ivanovich
TCHELITCHEW, Pavel
TYSHLER, Aleksandr Grigorevich
VASNETSOV, Apollinari Mikhailovitch, or Apollinari
VASNETSOV, Viktor Mikhailovitch
VERESHCHAGIN, Piotr Petrovich
VERESHCHAGIN, Vasili Vasilevich
VESCHILOV, Konstantin Aleksandrovich
VRUBEL, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
WEISBERG, Vladimir Grigorevich
YACOVLEV, Aleksandr Evgenevich
YAKULOV, Georgi Bogdanovich
YUON, Konstantin Fedorovich
ZVEREV, Anatoli