Rabinovich Isaak Moiseevich

February 27, 1894 (Kiev) - October 4, 1961 (Moscow)

painter, graphic artist, designer, muralist.

born in the family of the artist-craftsman. The first skill in drawing, apparently, was under the leadership of his father. In 1906-1915 he studied at the Kiev Art School and a private studio AA Murashko. Since 1911, he worked continuously as a theatrical designer. In 1914 he took part in the exhibition kubofuturisticheskogo association "Ring" in Kiev. In 1917, cooperated with NN Evreinov in Petrograd cabaret "Bi-Ba-Bo", which then moved to Kiev. In 1917-1918 worked in the studio of Alexandra Exter in Kiev. In 1918, together with Exter founded the studio of decorative art, among which the students were BS Aronson, AG Tyshler, N. Shifrin, S. K. Vishnevetskaya and others. In 1919, together with Tyshler designed the staging KA Mardzhanov "Sheep source" on the play by Lope de Vega.

In 1920 while living in Kharkov, in the same year he moved to Moscow. He created sketches of scenery and costumes for the play "Wedding" on a story by Anton Chekhov in the Third Moscow Art Theater School. In 1923 he designed the staging of "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes in the Music Studio Art Theater. In the same year as the assistant Exter worked on the design VSHV in Moscow. In 1924, together with VA Shem and SV Kozlovsky fulfilled scenery for the film "Aelita" (the costumes were made to the drawings of Exeter), in 1926 - the film Ya A . Protazanov "The process of the three millions».

In 1926-1930 he taught in VHUTEINe in Moscow. In the 1920 - 1930 designed many productions in various theaters, including the Jewish Chamber Theater, the Bolshoi and Maly theaters. Of all the theatrical works Rabinovich this period should be to provide sketches of costumes and scenery for the productions of the play "Bewitched" by A. Goldfaden of the Jewish Chamber Theater (1922), the operas of Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges "(1927 ) and Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" (1933), Tchaikovsky's ballet "Sleeping Beauty" (1936) at the Bolshoi Theater. In 1936 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

in 1939-1948 took part in the work on the Palace of Soviets in Moscow, for which designed the stained glass windows and interiors. In 1947, created a mosaic picture "Glory to the Soviet Army at the station" Baumanskaya. In 1958 designed the staging of "Hamlet" the play by William Shakespeare in the Theater. Vakhtangov.

Rabinowitz - one of the leading representatives of the Ukrainian avant-garde of the first third of the twentieth century, a distinguished theater artist. Early career of the master permeated interest in cubism and constructivism. In the future, his manner somewhat softened, but the artist did not become an adherent of socialist realism. For theatrical works are brilliant spectacle, a combination of conventional architectural-volume sets with the emotional, rich decorative painting.

Rabinowitz works are in many museum and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, the State Central Theater Museum im. AA Bakhrushin collection of theatrical-decorative art, ND Lobanov-Rostov and others.