Osip Emmanuelovich Braz - Artist Info

About Osip Emmanuelovich Braz

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Josef Bras, Iosif Braz
  • Biography

    Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (1873-1936)

    He graduated from the Odessa Art School (1890), and studied under Sandor Kholloshi in Munich (1891-94) and under Ilya Repin in the Academy of Arts (1895-96). In 1914, Braz was made an academic by the Academy of Arts. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1895. He created a series of vivid portraits of Russian painters: Martynova E.M. (1896, the State Tretyakov Gallery), A.P. Sokolov (1898, the State Russian Museum), I.Y. Ginzburg (1890s, the State Russian Museum) et al. Pavel Tretyakov commissioned him to paint the portrait of Anton Chekhov (1897-98, the State Tretyakov Gallery. He painted still lifes in the manner of "small Dutchmen" and impressionistic landscapes.

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