Mikhail Kozell
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Astrakhan
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, Russian Empire
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 - July 26, 1993, Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
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, Russia) - Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad
Leningrad
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, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting
Leningrad School of Painting
The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

, most famous for his landscape painting.

Biography

Mikhail Georgievich Kozell was born October 20, 1911 in Astrakhan
Astrakhan
Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on the left bank of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of below the sea level. Population:...

 city on the Volga river.
In 1939 Mikhail Kozell graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Isaak Brodsky
Isaak Brodsky
Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky , was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portrayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution.Brodsky was...

 workshop. Pupil of Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rilov, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov.

Since 1949 Mikhail Kozell participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre pictures, sketchs from the life. Personal Exhibition in Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...

 (1991).

Mikhail Kozell was a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...

 since 1962.

In 1948-1991 Mikhail Kozell worked as 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
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 at the eighty-second year of life. Paintings by Mikhail Kozell reside in Art museums and private collections in the Russia, U.S., England, Japan, and throughout the world.

See also

  • Leningrad School of Painting
    Leningrad School of Painting
    The Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...

  • List of Russian artists
  • List of 20th century Russian painters
  • List of the Russian Landscape painters
  • Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
    Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
    Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...


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