ABRAHAM MANIEVICH (1881-1942)

Abraham Manievich (1881–1942) was known as a Post- Impressionist landscape painter. He was born in Russia in 1881. In 1903 – 1905 he studied in Kiev Imperial Art Academy and in 1905 – 1907 in Munich Academy.

Manievich was part of the international artistic avant-garde of the early 20th century. Like many other Jewish artist, he was intimately involved with the cause of the Russian Revolution. The explosive cubo-futurist style was appropriate to the intensity of the revolutionary period both in art and in society.

His subjects were Ukrainian and Lithuanian village and country scenes, and street scenes of Moscow, Kiev, and Petrograd. He painted in a bold Fauvist style, and exhibited with the important French Fauvists. He received critical acclaim for his first solo exhibition at the famed Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris in 1913.

In 1922 he immigrated to the United States where he enjoyed critical acclaim until his death in 1942.

His works are in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum and various Russian museums.