KAPLAN Anatoly L. (Tanhum Levikovich)

1902 (Rogachev, Mogilev Province) - 1980 (Leningrad)

schedule, painter, ceramist, sculptor.

born in a family butcher, had five brothers and sisters. In 1922 he moved from Rogachova in Petrograd and joined the Faculty of Painting VKhUTEMAS (from 1923 - VHUTEINa). Among his teachers were A. Rylov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, N. Radlov. In 1927 he graduated from the course. In early career tried his hand at different kinds of art: industrial graphics, book illustrations. Regularly traveled to Rogachev, which was set up most of the drawings of the late 1920 - 1930.

the second half of 1930 under the leadership of GS Vereisk mastered the technique of lithography in a pilot workshop LOSSHa. By order of the Museum of Ethnography of the plot carried out some tracks on Birobidzhan. In 1937-1940 created his first series of lithographs "Kasrilovka. Since 1939 participated in collective exhibitions. In the 1940's worked on the extensive series of "Landscapes of Leningrad, which was launched in 1944 and completed in mid-1950.

After the war, served as chief artist of the Leningrad Art Glass Works (1948-1950). In the 1950 - 1960 created several easel illustration cycles based on the classic Jewish literature, mostly from the stories of Sholom Aleichem's "The Enchanted Tailor" (1953-1963), "Tevye the Milkman" (1957-1961), "Song song "(1960-1961)," Stempenyu "(1963-1967)," Knife "(1966), Mendel Mocher Sforim" The chip is lame "(1966-1969, 1972). Many are also involved in book graphics, illustrated books of Sholom Aleichem, "Stories for Children" (1965-1970), Peretz I.-L. "Stories" (1967-1969), I. Bobrovsky "Levin's Mill" ( 1975), G. Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" (1977) and others.

At the turn of the 1950 - 1960 along with the series, built on a literary basis, developed the so-called "folk cycles. In 1958-1960 executed in tempera and gouache series "Jewish Songs" in 1962 created a self-titled series of lithographs. In mid-1960 made a series of "Past", but then turned to pastels, ceramics. The leading place in the art Kaplan last decades of his life took a dry etching needle, which made a series of works "Memories of Rogachev» (1973-1979).

In 1961 in the gallery "Grosvenor" in London the first solo exhibition of the artist. It was followed by a series of exhibitions in private galleries and museums in Europe, particularly in the City Museum in Tel Aviv (1962) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (1967). In 1966 took part in the Biennale Art in Venice.

Retrospective exhibition of works of past masters in 1995 and 2007 in the State Russian Museum in 2007 - at the Museum of Private Collections of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin.

Kaplan resorted to a variety of printing techniques, and original graphics, lithography, color etching, dry needle, pencil, ink, pastels, gouaches and so on. However, the most successful artist has achieved in the field of lithography, as one of the leading masters of this art form in the 1960 - 1970. At the core of his style - bold, recognizable - lay a traditional Jewish art, it is often varied the same motifs and images, repeatedly returning to childhood memories, inspired by Jewish culture in all its diversity. Fluor has manifested itself in the field of ceramics, which are particularly interesting experiments with color.

Works Kaplan are in many museum collections around the world, including the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, the State Hermitage Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Vatican Museums in Rome, Stedeliyk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Victoria and Albert Museum in London.