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Artwork of the late Edward Dlugopolski
Teacher & Mentor Boris Anisfeld
Edward Dlugopolski was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s.
His teacher and mentor there was the artist Boris Anisfeld. Below is more information found on the internet about Anisfeld.
Ed would also study with Anisfeld at his summer art school at his home in Central City, Colorado.
His teacher and mentor there was the artist Boris Anisfeld. Below is more information found on the internet about Anisfeld.
Ed would also study with Anisfeld at his summer art school at his home in Central City, Colorado.
Portrait of Anisfeld
by Ed Dlugopolski
by Ed Dlugopolski
Painting by
Boris Anisfeld
Boris Anisfeld
Photo of Anisfeld
in Colorado
Born: 1878
Died: 1973
Nationality:
Russian and American
Known for being a
painter and theater designer
From Wikipedia (link below):
1878 – October 2. Boris Izrailevich (Srulevich) Anisfeld is born in Bieltsy, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Moldova), into the family of Srul Ruvinovich Anisfeld, an estate manager, and Gitlya Istkovna Anisfeld. Until he is seventeen, the future artist lives in his parents’ home.1895 – Anisfeld enters the Odessa Drawing School, where he studies with K. K. Kostandi, at that time the leading teacher of portraiture and figure painting in Odessa. He meets V. A. Izdebsky, S. L. Abugov, and D. D. Burliuk
1904 – The Council decides to give Anisfeld a one-time grant. With the understanding of the Academy that he will apply himself to his art studies, Anisfeld spends the summer traveling around Russia-and also every summer thereafter, until 1909. In December, he marries Frieda Glaeserman, the daughter of a Pskov merchant. She, apparently, had been taking art lessons with Anisfeld.
1906 – Anisfeld stays in Paris in Jan. and Feb. For the first time, he participates in exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists, in Moscow, and of the World of Art in Petersburg. One of his watercolors, Flowers is acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery.
1911 – During the winter, Anisfeld executes A. N. Benois’ designs for Petrushka, and that Spring, in Rome and Paris, he creates the sets and costumes for The Undersea Kingdom. This is the only design work for Diaghilev's Russian Ballet which is entirely his own. He spends the summer in Capri. The New York Metropolitan Opera buys Anisfeld's sets for Boris Godunov from the Paris Grand Opera. His work designing sets continues.
1918 Anisfeld arrives in New York.
1926 – Anisfeld becomes an American citizen. He wins a gold medal from the Philadelphia exposition for his painting Hispania, and designs costumes for two productions of Mikhail Mordkin's Russian Ballet.
1928 – Anisfeld moves to Chicago with his wife and daughter. After some time in a residential hotel, Anisfeld and his family move to an apartment building on Ohio Street. That summer, the artist undertakes an automobile trip around the American South West. He visits Santa Fe, Taos, and Southern Colorado.
1928–1958 – Anisfeld frequently spends the summers in the Western US. (Colorado and New Mexico)
1929–1957 – Anisfeld teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his students is Ed Dlugopolski.
1958 – The Art Institute organizes a retrospective exhibition of Anisfeld's works, at the insistence of his former students. Anisfeld's name returns from oblivion. The New York Times publishes a short biographical piece about him.
1958 – The Art Institute organizes a retrospective exhibition of Anisfeld's works, at the insistence of his former students. Anisfeld's name returns from oblivion. The New York Times publishes a short biographical piece about him.
1934–1965 – The artist teaches painting there to a small group of students most summers. This is the so-called "Boris Anisfeld School of Painting". He lives in Old Town Chicago, at the same location from the mid thirties almost until his death, at the Kogen Apartments, a purpose built apartment/ studio complex for artists know as Carl Street Studios, established by artists Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller.