Michail Grobman

Born 1939, Moscow, Russia

A Beast with a Crown

 Original Hand-Signed Screen Print -
the mid-1970s

Artist Name: Michail Grobman

Title:
A beast with a crown

Signature Description: 

Hand signed in Hebrew lower right and in English lower left,
Numbered "56/85" lower middle,

Signed in Hebrew in the plate lower left.

Printed at the Jerusalem Print Workshop.


Technique:
Screen print

Size: 
50 x 65 cm /19.69" x 
25.59" inch

Frame:
Unframed

Condition:
Very Good condition


Artist's Biography:


Michail Yakovlevich Grobman (Russian, 1939)

 

Michail Grobman, painter and poet working in Israel and Russia, born 1939, Moscow.
Immigrated to Israel 1971 and settled in Jerusalem.
Since 1983 lives and works in Tel Aviv.
His son is the architect 
Yaakov Yasha Grobman, and his daughter is the Hollywood film producer Lati Grobman.


Awards and Prizes 
2000 Association of Painters and Sculptors, Tel Aviv, Prize for his work and involvement with other artists.
2001 Dizenfgoff Prize, Tel Aviv.


Michail Grobman is a well-known artist and a poet who works in Russia and Israel. He was influenced by the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

In 1959 Left Wing group of artists, Moscow.

Grobman started getting known as an artist after the years of the 1960s and became a member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde movement.
Michail Grobman's works such as "Envelopes", "Porcelain man", "The Black Rectangle" during 1963 and 1965 brought him into fame.
1964-65 Wrote and illustrated children's books and articles.

1967 became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

In 1975 he founded in Jerusalem the Leviathan (Whale in Hebrew) Group and an art periodical (in Russian) together with Avraham Ofek and Samuel (Shmuel) Ackerman. 


Biography
1939 – Born in Moscow.

1960s – Active member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde movement in the Soviet Union.

1967 – Member of Moscow Artists Union.

1971 – Emigrates to Israel and settles in Jerusalem.

1975 – Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian).

Since 1983, he lives and works mainly in Tel Aviv.

 

Solo exhibitions

2007 – Last Skies, Loushy & Peter Art & Projects, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Marc Scheps)

2006 – Creation from Chaos to Cosmos, Bar-David Museum of Fine Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram (cat. text: Sorin Heller)

2002 – The Last Sky, installation, Tsveta Zuzoritch pavilion, Belgrad (cat. text: Irina Subotitch)

1999 – Michail Grobman: Works 1960–1998, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat. texts: Evgenija Petrova, Marc Scheps, Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Michail German)

1998 – Picture = Symbol + Concept, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (cat. texts: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Marina Genkina)

1995 – Password and Image, University Gallery, Haifa University (Leaflet)

1989 – Michail Grobman, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989 – The Beautiful Sixties in Moscow (Jointly with Ilia Kabakov), The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Mordechai Omer)

1988 – Michail Grobman: Künstler und Sammler, Art Museum, Bochum, Germany (cat. text: Peter Spielmann)

1987 – Messiah, installation and performance in the streets of Jerusalem (cat.)

1985 – Khlebnikov 100, performance in the streets of Acre, Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tel-Aviv

1984 – Michail Grobman, Zvi Noam Gallery, Beit Levik, Tel Aviv

1977 – Michail Grobman, Spertus Museum, Chicago

1977 – Performance in Judean desert

1973 – Michail Grobman, Negev Museum, Beer Sheva

1973 – Michail Grobman, Beth Uri and Rami Museum, Ashdot Yaacov (cat.)

1972 – Michail Grobman, Nora Gallery, Jerusalem

1971 – Michail Grobman: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Haim Gamzu)

1966 – Michail Grobman, Projects Engineering Institute, Moscow

1965 – Michail Grobman, Artists House, Moscow

1965 – Michail Grobman, Energy Institute, Moscow

1965 – Michail Grobman, History Institute, Moscow

1965 – Michail Grobman, Usti-nad-Orlicy Theatre, Czechoslovakia (leaflet text: Dushan Konetchni)

1959 – Michail Grobman, Mukhina Art Institute, Leningrad

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

·         2003 "Yes do yourself...", Regeneration of Judaism in Israeli art, Zman Omanut Tel Aviv (cat: Gideon Ofrat)

·         1999 "Russian post-war avantgarde", The Trajsman Collection in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Tretjakov National Gallery, Moscow (cat. text: Yevgenij Barabanov, John Bolt, Karl Eimermacher, Alexander Borovsky)

·         1998 The Boundaries of Language, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tikkun. "Aspects of Israeli Art of the 70s", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat. text: Mordehaj Omer)

·         1997 "Nonconformists: The Second Russian Avant-garde,  from the Bargera Collection", Russian National Museum, St. Petersburg; Tretjakov National Gallery, Moscow; State Gallery, Frankfurt; Quadrat (J. Albers Museum Bottrop, Germany; Kunsthalle, Leverkusen, Germany (cat. texts: Hans Peter Rose, Yevegni Barabanov, Alexander Borovski)

·         1996 "Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art", Ackland Museum, North Carolina (cat. texts: Jerry Bolas, Gideon Ofrat, Michael Sgan-Cohen)

·         1995 "Unser Jahrhundert", Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat. text: Marc Scheps, Barbara M. Thiemann, Stephanie M. Baumann, Jens Bove, Gerard Goodrow, Martin Spantig)

·         1994 "The Printer's Imprint", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat. texts: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Arik Kilemnik) "Anxiety", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (cat. text: Miriam Tovia-Boneh)

o   "Europe Europe: The Century of the Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe", Kunsthalle, Bonn (cat. texts: Pontus Hulten, Karl Ruhrberg, Richard Stanislavsky, Cristoph Brockhaus, Norman Davies, Sergel Avawerinzew, Cristophe Pomian)

·         1993 "Understandable Art", The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (cat. texts: Miriam Tovia-Boneh, Evgeni Steiner)

o   "From Malevitch to Kabakov: Russian Avant-garde in the 20th Century", Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat. texts: Marc Scheps, Evelyn Weiss, Noemi Smolik, Stephan Diederich, Barbara M.Thiemann, Gerard A. Goodrow)

·         1991 "The Return to Painting in Israeli Printmaking", The Genia Schreiber, University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

o   "Text-Image", Janco-Dada Museum,  Ein Hod (cat. text: Sara Hackert)

·         1990 "Different Art", Tretjakov National Gallery, Moscov (cat.)

o   "The Museum as Collector", Tel Aviv Museum of Art

o   "Chagall to Kitaj: The Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art", Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat. text: Avram Kampf)

·         1989 "Wortlaut", K. Schopenhauer Gallery, Cologne (cat.)

o   "The Russian Avant-garde in the Early 20th Century", University Gallery, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva (cat. text: Haim Finkelshtein)

o   "Abattoir '89", Marseilles (cat.)

·         1988 "Avant-garde - Revolution - Avant-garde", Tel Aviv Museum (cat. texts: Marc Scheps, Peter Spielmann) "Upon One of the Mountains: Jerusalem in Israeli Art", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat. text: Mordechal Omer)

·         1987 "Retrospection", Hermitage Garden Hall, Moscow

o   "Art Works Done in Groups", K-18, Kassel (cat.)

·         1984 "Transformations", University Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat. text: Mordechal Omer)

·         1981 "Leviathan Group", Jerusalem Theatre (cat.)

o   "Russian Samyzhdat Art, 1960-1982", Franklin Furance Gallery, New York; Chapaque Library Gallery, Washington, D.C. (leaflet)

·         1979 – 1980 "East European Art in the 20th  Century", Museum of Art, Bochum, Germany (cat.)

o   "Leviathan Group", Artist's House, Jerusalem (cat.)

o   "20 Years of Independent Art in the Soviet Union", Gallery of St. Mary's College, Maryland (leaflet)

·         1978 "Leviathan Group", Belt Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot Yaacov (cat.) "New Art from the Soviet Union", Pratt Institute Gallery, New York (leaflet)

·         1975 "1970-1975" Progressive Trends in Moscow, Museum of Art,  Bochum, Germany (cat.)

·         1973 "Modern Russian Art: Avantgarde Drawings",  Ostwall Museum, Dortmund (cat.)

·         1970 "New Trends in Moscow", Museum of Art, Lugano (cat.)

·         1969 "The Russian Avant-garde Today", Gmurzynska Gallery, Cologne (cat.)

o   "The New Moscow School", Pananti Gallery, Florence, Bar Gallery, Stuttgart; Interior Gallery, Frankfurt

·         1968 "The New Moscow School", Museum of Art, Ostrov-nad-Ozhy, Czechoslovakia (cat.)

·         1965 Trade Union Club, Usti-nad-Orlicy, Czechoslovakia

o   Artist's House, Moscow - "Artists from Moscow",

·         1964 Patent Institute, Moscow

·         1963 Dostoevsky Museum, Moscow

·         1962 "Young Artists", Udarnik Cinema, Moscow

Collections

Center Pompidou, Paris. Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Museum of Art, Bochum. Tretjakov Museum, Moscow. Tiumen Regional Museum, Russia. Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Museum of Modern Art, Utrecht. Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow. Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Writing

·         "Moscow Diaries", New Literary Observer, vol. 84, 2007 – in Russian

·         Last Sky – Poems, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2006 – in Russian

·         "Poems and Articles", Symbol We: Jewish Anthology of Russian Literature, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2003 – in Russian

·         Leviathan: Diary 1963–1971, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2002– in Russian

·         "Leviathan. Manifestos", Zerkalo, vol. 19–20, 2002 – in Russian

·         Military Notebooks – Poems, Leviathan Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2002 – in Russian

·         "about Vladimir Jakovlev", Vladimir Jakovlev: Zivopis, Grafika, catalogue of the exhibition, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 1995

·         "The Enigma of Isaak Levitan", Isaak Levitan, 1860–1900: Sketches & Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1991

·         "About Malevich", Avant-Garde – Revolution – Avant-Garde: Russian Art from the Collection of Michail Grobman, Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1988

·         "About Malevich", The Avant-Garde in Russia 1910–1930: New Perspectives, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980

·         Leviathan, newspaper of modern art and literature, nos. 1–3 (1975–1980) – in Russian


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