Mikhail Kozell

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Georgievich and the family name is Kozell.

Mikhail Georgievich Kozell
Born	October 20, 1911 Astrakhan, Russian Empire
Died	July 26, 1993 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Art teaching
Movement	Realism

Mikhail Georgievich Kozell (Russian: Михаи́л Гео́ргиевич Ко́зелл; October 20, 1911, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – July 26, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), and who belonged to the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for his landscape painting.

Biography

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Towards the end of winter. 1970

Kozell was born October 20, 1911 in Astrakhan. In 1939 Mikhail Kozell graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Isaak Brodsky workshop. Pupil of Mikhail Bernshtein, Arcady Rylov, Alexander Lubimov, Vladimir Serov. Since 1949 Mikhail Kozell participated in Art Exhibitions. Painted landscapes, genre pictures, sketchs from the life.

Mikhail Kozell was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1962. In 1948-1991 Mikhail Kozell worked as an Art teacher of Secondary Art School of Ilya Repin Institute in Leningrad.

Mikhail Georgievich Kozell died on July 26, 1993, in Saint Petersburg at 82 years og age. Paintings by Mikhail Kozell reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, U.S., England, Japan, and throughout the world.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of Russian artists
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of the Russian Landscape painters
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

Gallery

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  Towards the end of winter.
  1970

• Kozell-Mikail-Autumn-road-geo41bw.jpg

  Autumn road.
  1967

• Kozell-Mikhail-At-the-cow-house-7win27bw.jpg

  At the cow-house.
  1984

• Kozell-Mikhail-Autumn-in-Pargolovo-ch17bw.jpg

  Autumn in Pargolova.
  1969

Bibliography

• Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1974. -p. 14.
• Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.97,154.
• Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1978. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1978. - р.58.
• Mikhail Kozell. Painting. Drawings. Exhibition of works. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1989.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0-9532061-0-6, ISBN 978-0-9532061-0-0.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 15, 20, 361, 390, 392, 394-398, 400-405, 445. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.

External links

• Mikhail Kozell on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.