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January 22, 1873 in Odessa, was born Emmanuilovich Osip Braz - the famous painter, engraver, etcher, lithographer.
Learn to paint, he began drawing school in Odessa at KK Kostandi; in 1890-94 gg. continued his education in Munich, in a private school of Hungarian artist Sh Holloshi. In Munich, and then during a trip to France and Holland, he studied the works of old masters, acquainted with modern European art. Already established artist Braz in 1895 entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, in Repin's studio. Then he began to participate in exhibitions. His work, according to the artist and art historian Alexander Benois, at that time to distinguish the "maturity of taste and some sort of" Europeanism ". In 1897, Braz was promoted to the artist, but, contrary to the academic rules, not a special competition now, but for a series of portraits. One of them - "Portrait of EM Martynova (1896) - acquired by PM Tretyakov. He commissioned the artist as an image Komissarzhevskaya and Anton Chekhov. Portrait of Chekhov (1898) has received conflicting assessments of contemporaries, but is the only complete portrait of the writer's lifetime.