Isaak Brodsky

, 1913 Brodsky was born in the village of Sofiyivka near Berdyansk in modern day Ukraine to Yisrael, a Jewish merchant. He studied at Odessa Art Academy and the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. For five years he studied at the Academy under Ilya Repin. In 1916, he joined the Jewish Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. When Brodsky asked Lenin to autograph his painting Lenin, he said: "I am signing to what I don't agree with for the first time". Brodsky was on good terms with many leading Russian painters, including his mentor, Ilya Repin. He was an avid art collector who donated numerous first-class paintings to museums in his native Ukraine and elsewhere. His art collection included important works by Repin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, Isaak Levitan, Mikhail Vrubel, and Boris Kustodiev. Brodsky was an Honoured Artist of the Russian SFSR and a member of the Union of Russian Artists. He was the first painter to be awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1934, he was appointed Director of the All-Russian Academy of Arts. From 1934 to 1939, he was also a head of personal Art workshop in institute, where his pupils included the well-known Soviet painters: Nikolai Timkov, Alexander Laktionov, Yuri Neprintsev, Piotr Belousov, Piotr Vasiliev, Mikhail Kozell and others. == Legacy ==

He died in Leningrad in 1939. His memoirs were published posthumously. After his death, in on Arts Square in St. Petersburg was declared a national museum. His art collection is still on exhibit there. Odesa Fine Arts Museum bore Brodsky's name in 1938-1941. The Berdyansk Art Museum, founded by Brodsky in 1930, bears Brodsky's name, where the artist gave about 200 paintings by Russian artists from his collection. == Gallery ==

File:Ludmila Burluk by Isaak Brodsky (1906).jpg|'''', 1906 0737Ha. Портрет М.Ф. Андреевой, Бродский И.И. (1884-1939).jpg|Maria Andreyeva, 1910 0686Ha. Brodky with daughter, Brodsky I.I. (1884-1939)..jpg|Self-Portrait, featuring the painter's then toddler daughter Lidiya, 1911 File:Isaak Brodsky, Ilya Repin, 1912, Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg МБр Ж-174; from collection.artsacademymuseum.org.jpg|Ilya Repin, 1912 File:Isaak Brodsky, Korney Chukovsky, 1915, Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg МБр Ж-176; from collection.artsacademymuseum.org.jpg|Korney Chukovsky, 1915 File:AleksandrKerenskiPorIsaacBrodsky1918.jpeg|Alexander Kerensky, c. 1917–1918 File:Isaak Brodsky, Vladimir Lenin in Front of Smolny, 1925, State Historical Museum, Moscow ФМЛ К-19; from catalog.shm.ru.jpg|Vladimir Lenin in Front of Smolny, 1925 File:Mikhail Frunze by Isaak Brodsky (1929).jpg|Mikhail Frunze, 1929 StalinPorIsaakBrodsky1935.jpg|Joseph Stalin, 1935 File:Maxim Gorky by Isaak Brodsky (1937, GTG).jpeg|Maxim Gorky, 1937 Worker's funerals by Isaak Brodsky (1906).jpg|''A Worker's Funeral'', 1906 Isaak Brodsky, Italy, 1911, Tretyakov Gallery 22466; from goskatalog.ru.jpg|Italy, 1911 File:Isaak Brodsky skazka.jpg|Fairy Tale, 1911 0724Ha. Painting Children on the Lawn. Brodsky I.I. (1884-1939).jpg|Children on the Lawn, 1913 Второй конгресс Коминтерна.jpg|The Opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, 1920–1924 Передача Знамени парижских коммунаров в Москву.png|''The Passing of the Communards' Banner to the Moscow Workers'', c. 1924 The Execution of the Twenty Six Baku Commissars.jpg|The Execution of the Baku Commissars, 1925 File:Isaak Brodsky putilov.jpg|Lenin at the Putilov Factory, May 1917, 1929 File:Brodski lenin.jpg|Lenin in Smolny, 1930 Isaak Brodsky, A Demonstration on 25 October Prospect, 1934, Tretyakov Gallery 15145; from goskatalog.ru.jpg|A Demonstration on 25 October Prospect, 1934 Isaak Brodsky, New Moon, 1906, Russian Museum Ж-11130.jpg|New Moon, 1906 0757Ha. Painting "Academic Dacha". Brodsky I.I. (1884-1939).jpg|Akademicheskaya Dacha, 1907 К вечеру (Бродский).jpg|At the Evening, 1911 0722Ha. Painting Golden Autumn. Brodsky I.I. (1884-1939).jpg|Golden Autumn, 1913 File:Brodsky-Alley-of-park-1930b.jpg|Alley in a Park, 1930 ==References==