Prisoner USLON Osip Braz
 

Immanuilovich Osip Braz (1872-1936). One of the best Russian portrait painters, a member of the World of Art "and after Alexander Benois best connoisseur of the old painting in Russia. From 1918 - the keeper of the Hermitage. One of the masterpieces of its collection - paintings JB Chardin's "Still Life with Attributes of Art - Hermitage obliged Braz, who bought it from the antiquities market. He was arrested in early 1924, on charges of economic espionage, on false charges "for informing the British about the upcoming sale of property of the Hermitage. In prison, the artist opened consumption. Later he was transferred to a camp on Solovki, where he remained from 1924 to 1926. Here he took an active part in the creation of the museum of History and Art Museum, some time was his head, but mostly engaged in the monuments and their descriptions. In 1926 he was sent into exile in Novgorod and held a solo exhibition, which presented the scenery of the ancient city. Left Russia and moved in 1928 first to Germany and then to France, Brazil does not have Novgorod topic. Focusing on their designs, in 1930 he organized in Paris gallery Hirschman exhibition on Novgorod. Knowledge and experience enabled the artist to successfully lead an antique trade and gather a good collection of works of art
 
In the drawings prisoner O. Braz, in opened in the 1924 printing of the camp, were printed some postcards USLON: Solovki.Kreml, Solovki.Uspensky cathedral, Transfiguration Cathedral, the Kremlin from the western side,

That's what I do not know. Thank you.
And this is his work. Captions on the photos.

And this is his period watercolors Novgorod (1926) and "Sprat" I do not know when he wrote, perhaps in 1918 -23 years. when he taught at the Petrograd VHUTEINe. Who are the artists he then studied?

In prison, the artist opened consumption. --
But recently .... who knew Braz at a later time artist Paul Buchkin remembers that Brasil had incredible physical strength. "
- We have in the studio, - says Buchkin - a bar three pounds of ten pounds and two-pound dumbbells. We are them, trying, raised as best they could, and he used them to play freely without any difficulty. But the most striking was his trick with a heavy iron poker, which the keeper prevented the coals in the furnace. Braz clamped end pokers fingers of his right hand and povertyval her in a circle in the air from one end of the floor to another. We could hardly provolochit poker on the floor.
This is a portrait of Novgorod period.

Interestingly, while many of his paintings in private collections?

Portraits O. Braz resemble portraits B. Kustodiev, is not it?

There are exactly, but how to count? Judging from the Salon.
As GRM-17 pictures;
In GTG-12 and so on regianalnym there. We have one, for example, in Saratov-2.

and on sale there?

Meister, and just saw on sale. In Petrograd, but who do not remember, but the second exactly. Floor ...

In Moscow Goldin, in the House of Books in Tver was Braz. Maybe now there. Handsome was still life.
At the auctions in Europe was caught early.