Sidlin Osip Abramovich (1909-1972), artist

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SIDLIN Osip Abramovich (1909-1972, Leningrad), painter, pedagogue. He graduated from the Leningrad School of Arts (1930), studied in the Highest Artistic and Technical Institute under Alexander Osmerkin and Alexander Savinov, and visited classes of Kazimir Malevich and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1936-39 and 1949-72 he taught in drawing studios of House of Culture Kapranova and House of Culture Ilyicha. His unique artistic and pedagogical system developed on the basis of plastic avant-garde ideas of the early 1900s was named the Sidlin School. His pupils include some representatives of Leningrad underground (Anatoly Basin, Evgeny Goryunov, Vladimir Egorov, V.I. Ivanov, et al)., most of his own paintings were destroyed according to his wishes. The surviving works were first presented at the informal home exhibition of the group of Jewish artists Alef in 1975. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery.

References: Школа Сидлина / Авт.-сост. А. Андрущенко. СПб., 2001.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Basin Anatoly Nisonovich
Egorov Vladimir Evgenievich
Goryunov Evgeny Nikolaevich
Ivanov V.I.
Kapranov Viktor Pavlovich
Malevich Kazimir Severinovich
Osmerkin Alexander Alexandrovich
Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich
Savinov Alexander Ivanovich
Sidlin Osip Abramovich
Школа Сидлина / Авт.-сост. А. Андрущенко. СПб., 2001 Jewish Cemetery