Gabriel Glikman

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Gabriel Glikman
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Born	14th of July, 1913 Beshankovichy, Vitebsk, Soviet Union
💀Died	4th of January, 2003 Munich, Germany4th of January, 2003
💼 Occupation	Painter, Sculptor

Gabriel Glikman (1913 – 2003) was born on July 14th 1913 in the town of Beshenkovichi, in the Soviet  Union.

As a painter and sculptor, he dedicated his live to the performing arts, and lived in Munich for a quarter of a century  until his death on January 4th 2003.

Biography

1913  Glikman  Gabriel was born in Vitebsk, where he also spent his childhood.

1929   the family moved to Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.

1930's  Gabriel Glikman attended a private school where is taught by Professor Leopold Diehiel.

1937-1947   interrupted by the war, he studied at the famous Leningrad  Academy of Art sculpture, painting and  graphics. In the following time he makes a name for   himself as a sculptor.

1968   exhibition of the paintings in Leningrad, which however closed after three days by order of the Soviet government.

1980   emigration to the West. After many years of waiting the Glikman family will finally allow the path to the West.

1982-2003   the artist lived in Munich, where he maintained a studio in the Arabella Park. He died in 2003 in Munich.

About his life

Since  he  was  a  child  he  entered  the  Vitebsk  Art  Lyceum where he had the  opportunity  to  watch  Chagall,  Malevich  and  other  well-known  artists  at  work. Glikman  probably  also  adopted  their  typical  artistic  freedom  and  untamed  imagination.

Even  as  a  young  man,  he  clearly  defined  the  basic  idea  of  his  art  -  the  beauty  and  depth  of  the  human to  recognize  the  soul  and  to  convey  it  to  people.

In  1922  the  Glikman  family  moved  to  Leningrad  -  the  city  where  the  artist  spent  half  a  century. There,  Gabriel  Glikman  graduates  from  the  art  academy  and  quickly  becomes  one  of  the  leading  sculptors  in  the  city.

His  work  includes  sculptures  by  Mozart,  Beethoven,  Schönberg,  Bach,  Radischev,  D.  Shostakovich,  E.  Mravinsky,  M.  Rostropovich,  V.  Mejerhold,  Mikhoels  and  many  others.  His  sculptures  adorn  museums, concert  halls,  streets  and  squares  of  Moscow,  St.  Petersburg,  Tsarskoe  Selo,  Saransk,  Saratov...

"Pushkin  in  the  Lyceum"  -  a  marble  work  by  Glikman  -  was  exhibited  in  the  Hermitage  and  is  one  of  the best  illustrations  of  the  great  Russian  poet.

All  these  years,  during  his  time  as  a  sculptor,  Glikman  also  secretly  engaged  in  painting.  Why secretly?  From  the  start,  Glikman's  pictures  contradict  Soviet  ideologues,  and  not  just  in  terms  of  subject  matter,  even  the  form  is  not  compatible  with  the  statutes  of  socialist  realism.

The  wonderful  series  of  portraits  "Nevskij  Prospekt"  is  created  in  a  special  style  unique  to  the  artist,  as  well  as Portraits  of  artists  and  writers:  Essenin,  Klyuev,  Blok,  Diagilev,  Sollertinsky,  Filonov,  Kuzmin,  Andrei Belij.

Dimitri  Shostakovich,  who  was  good  friends  with  Glikman  in  those  years,  once  told  him,  half  jokingly:

"Gabriel  Davidovich,  you  should  hide  your  work  in  a  bunker  until  the  time  is  right..."

But  Glikman  doesn't  listen  to  that  advice.  In  1968  he  exhibited  his  paintings  in  the  St. Petersburg Union of  Composers. Immediately  a  loud  scandal  breaks  out.  The  exhibition  will  be  closed  by  the  government. His artistic  work  and  his  personal  fate  are  in  danger  -  during  this  time  he  is  recommended  several  times to  leave  the  country. And  in  1980,  Glikman  makes  a  decision  –  in  favor  of  artistic  freedom.  The  artist  later  recalled that  leaving  Soviet  Russia  was  a  tragic,  one-way  journey,  but

"...I  left  there broken,  attracted  by  a  phantom  of  freedom,  a  freedom  both  spiritual  and  physical,  which  seemed  to  everyone  in  the  USSR  like  an  unreal  substance  that  lived  only  secretly  in  souls...".

Glikman  is  still  relatively  unknown  in  the  West,  but  is  quickly  gaining  widespread  recognition.  After  just  one  year a  very  successful  exhibition  of  his  works  takes  place  in  the  well-known  Korkoran  Gallery  in  Washington.  Under them  numerous  portraits  –  by  Dostoyevsky,  Solzhenitsyn,  Tsvetaeva,  Akhmatova,  Rostropovich  and  of  course  by D. Shostakovich,  whom  the  artist  knew  for  forty  years  and  from  whom  he  created  many  paintings  and  sculptures. This  exhibition  leaves  a  deep  mark  on  the  souls  of  visitors.  The  Washington  Post  writes  in one  of the articles  about  this  exhibition:  "It  was  a  renaissance  of  the  epoch  of  greatness  that  no  longer  exists". At  that  time,  the  Parisian  magazine  "Kontinent"  published  the  article  "Reflections  with  the  brush  in  your  hand"  by  T. Dmitriev.  Under  the  impression  of  the  Washington  exhibition,  he  writes:

"It  was  indeed  fascinating to  look  at  these  paintings  as  one  studies  a  precious  manuscript,  and  to  recognize  again  and  again, that  they  are  not  simply  portraits  with  a  penetrating  inner  world  and  an  outer  likeness,  but modern  poems  about  time,  about  the  country  seen  through  the  eyes  of  a  great  artist".

Critics  who  analyze  Glikman's  work  often  state  that  his  works  contain  all  the  important  art directions  of  the  XX.  century.

"It  also  gave  rise  to  his  unique  style  -  always  outstanding each  time  it  is  seemingly  new,  but  always  typical  -  we  always  recognize  a  Glikman.  One strange,  sometimes  naive,  but  always  complete  delight  in  drawing,  an  artistic  lightness next  to  a  dissonance  of  colored  spots...  Daring  and  surprising  compositions,  a  clear  tuning  and  plentylaterality  of  the  rhythms,  a  decorative  impetuosity  next  to  the  finest  nuances.”

Through  the  power  of  his  talent  and  the  superiority  of  his  vision,  Glikman  hypnotizes  the  viewer;  the  Darge  forces  him to  see  people  and  the  whole  world  through  the  eyes  of  the  Creator.

List of museums with his works

Saint Petersburg	Moscow	Saratow	Rio de Janeiro	London	Berlin	Washington
Russian Museum	Literary Museum in Moscow	The Saratov State Art Museum	Theater Museum	Tate Gallery	Mauermuseum - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie	Gallery Museum Corcoran
Dostoevsky Museum	Dostojewskji Museum
National Pushkin Museum

Collections

Sculptures

• Bach (Bronze)
  Bach (Bronze)
• Strawinskij (Bronze)
  Strawinskij (Bronze)
• Nelli of Dostojewskis Roman (Bronze)
  Nelli of Dostojewskis Roman (Bronze)

Paitings

• Dostojewskij and Suslova
  Dostojewskij and Suslova
• Woman in Black and blue (1973)
  Woman in Black and blue (1973)
• Anna Achmatowa (1990)
  Anna Achmatowa (1990)
• Michelangelo
  Michelangelo
• Bruckner (Messias) (1972)
  Bruckner (Messias) (1972)
• Mussorgsky 19.08.1960)
  Mussorgsky 19.08.1960)
• Franz Kafka (1966)
  Franz Kafka (1966)
• Mstislav Rostropovich
  Mstislav Rostropovich
• Chopin and George Sand (1991)
  Chopin and George Sand (1991)
• Haydn (1970)
  Haydn (1970)
• Gauguin (1994)
  Gauguin (1994)
• Taisa (his wife)
  Taisa (his wife)

References

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