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| Boris Anisfeld, Flowers. 1955, Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 26.8 in. |
| Born in 1879 in Russia, Boris Anisfeld was a sculptor, lithographer, painter, illustrator, and set designer. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1901 to 1909 under Ilya Repin and was involved into book design and illustration before changing his course of study to stage design. In 1911, Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe chose him to design the production of Sadko because of Anisfeld’s interest in fantasy, and this began his career with that company. He worked for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Peterburg and for the Russian ballet in Paris and was closely affiliated with Leon Bakst. After emigrating to the United States in 1928, Anisfeld became professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and worked for the Metropolitan Opera in New York and for the Chicago Opera. In 1918 the Brooklyn Museum mounted an impressive one-man show of his work. Boris Anisfeld died 1973 in USA. His works are in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn museum in New York. |
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