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1918 Kiev, Ukraine - 1985 Santa Monica, California. Known for: Tonalist landscape, still life, and portrait painter, educator.
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes,... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and inherited his love of art from his father who was an art collector and poet. When age sixteen, the young Bongart began art study at the Art Academy of Kiev with Michael Yarovoy and Peter Kotov, well-known Russian artists. Within two years, Bongart was... Read full biography
An award-winning artist known as a colorist, Sergei Bongart worked in a variety of media--oil, casein, watercolor, gouache and tempera--and did a variety of subjects including portraits, landscapes, still lifes and cowboys. He was also a highly influential teacher of drawing and painting at his Sergei Bongart School of Art, which he opened in Santa Monica, California in 1949 and operated for many years. He was born and raised in a small village in the Ukraine of Russia called Zhukovki, and inherited his love of art from his father who was an art collector and poet. When age sixteen, the young Bongart began art study at the Art Academy of Kiev with Michael Yarovoy and Peter Kotov, well-known Russian artists. Within two years, Bongart was getting recognition including museum representation. He left Russia in the 1940s, traveled in Europe, and em... Read full biography