Artist: Leonid Pasternak (1862 - 1945)
Nationality: Russian
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Russian artist, Leonid Pasternak moved to Berlin in 1921 and began working as a portrait painter. He befriended many cultural figures, including Leo Tolstoy. He illustrated Tolstoy’s War and Peace; Resurrection. He also produced portraits of Max Liebermann and Albert Einstein. With the rise of Nazism, Pasternak left Germany and settled in England. He spent the final years of his life in Oxford.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (2)
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Leonid - Faraduro, Portugal 1952 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Leonid Berman, Russian (active in France), 1896-1976 Boats near Boulogne Oil on canvas 65.1 x

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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Pulp Art: Vamps, Villains and Victors from the Robert Lesser Collection
Many of the paintings in Pulp Art, most of them from the 1930s and 1940s, will be presented alongside the printed magazine covers for which they were created. Often melodramatic, even lurid, these images were intended to catch the eye as dozens of...

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Leonid Pasternak
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Leonid Pasternaks Rilke sketch (Moscow c. 1900)
- Varenr. 213459, Leonid Pasternak 1862-1945 (dds), 2 st
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Leo Tolstoy 29 x 24 in. h. Leonid Pasternak
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OUP USA: Leonid Pasternak: The Russian Years, 1875-1921: Rimgaila Salys

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