Shvartsman Mikhail Matveyevich

June 4, 1926 (Moscow) - November 18, 1997 (Moscow)

painter, graphic artist, artist book.

In 1950-1956 he studied at the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (former Stroganov) in PV Kuznetsov and AV Kuprina.

After graduation he worked as a poster artist, was engaged in registration books. In 1963, Schwarzman, together with the artist G. Doumani has created several monumental pictures of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Moscow.

From 1966 to 1985 worked as chief artist artistic design bureau, which is developing trademarks. On the basis of his "hieratic conception" Schwarzman created in the bureau's own school, where, he says, «... engaged in design, studied the work of Malevich, Larionov, Tatlin, Goncharova ... »

«... As for my personal creative 50-60-ies, all my early works were connected with the concept of" ieratura. It is about respect for the human experience in life and his experience in death. A man in his life creates an icon himself, and in the face of death, he leaves an icon next to a coffin. It's like a spiritual birth to death, which creates the image of himself, an icon himself. Work on this face and was the main occupation of my early "ieratury. ... Go to "ierature" present - semantic-architectonic - took place somewhere in the mid 60-ies and was not mechanically, but organic-metaphorically, then spilling over forward, then he left back. These signs were born simultaneously with the "faces" ... gradually acquired an independent sign of spiritual and theological sense .... "(M. Schwartzman. Nov. 22, 1987).

artist led a secluded life, and rarely participated in exhibitions of unofficial art. In 1980, he refused to participate in the exhibition, organized by P. Ludwig, in 1987, did not want to exhibit their work at auction Christie's, and in 1984 the Ministry of Culture denied him Kunsthale Museum in Dusseldorf in organizing a personal exhibition.

In 1983 participated in the exhibition graphics for the Small Municipal Committee of the Georgian in Moscow in 1988 - in the exhibition "I live - I see" (Bern, Germany), as well as in the exhibition Basmadzhana first meeting at the State Tretyakov Gallery then at the State Russian Museum. In 1989 the work of Schwartzman exhibited first in Tashkent, the exhibition "Collection of Tanya and Natasha Kolodzei" and then in Moscow at the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin. In subsequent years, the artist's works included in the exhibition are several exhibitions in England, Germany and Russia.

Personal exhibitions: 1994 - The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), 1997 - Gallery "House Nashokin" (Moscow) 2001 - posthumous solo exhibition, The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg).

artist's works are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, in the collections of George Kostaki (Thessaloniki, Greece), Norton Dodge (Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA), as well as in Russian and foreign private collections.