Odessey of the French Brittany

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Who is he, born in Odessa from the French Brittany - Hirschfeld Emil B. French or Emil Benediktoff Hirschfeld).
Born in 1867 in Odessa, died in 1922 in France, Concarneau.
In the early 1880s he studied at the Odessa drawing school. His sketch was listed in the "Catalog of Works pupils at the school of drawing the Society of Fine Arts, located at the exhibition in a small Exchange Hall, open from 23 February to 11 March 1884. It is known that after he left Odessa in Munich, where he studied at the Academy of Arts, then continued his education in Paris - worked in the atelier VA Bouguereau, y J. Lefebvre and T. Robert, Fleury, known salon painters and teachers.
In 1892 Hirschfeld - permanent and successful members of the Paris salons. Participation in the salons Hirschfeld noted the official awards and favorable reviews of criticism, and in 1910 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. In the spring of 1914 in Paris, held a personal exhibition of the artist. Hirschfeld settled in Brittany, in the seaside town of Concarneau, where he spent most of his life. And almost all of his paintings - both landscapes and genres - a plot linked to the sea. Do not interrupted and contacts with Odessa. Winter and spring of 1897 he spent in his native city, as preserved evidence in the detailed chronicle of the Odessa newspapers of those years. Participated in the Spring exhibition, organized by local artists SA Chisinau, J. Brodsky and J. Paolini. Equally favorably responded to the criticism and the Odessa Hirschfeld participate in exhibitions of the Association of South Russian artists in 1901-1902. Incidentally, in 1901 he became a member of the partnership. The last time the Odessa audience saw two pictures Hirschfeld in the cabin I V. Izdebsky 1909/10 years. - They appear in all versions of the catalog and, respectively, were shown in Odessa, Kiev, St. Petersburg and Riga.
In the article M. Obukhov and catalog of the exhibition "Peintres Russes en Bretagne" (exhibition took place in Brittany in June - September 2006). In the same row with A. Benoit, I. Bilibin, Z. Serebryakova and other famous names - Odessa Aemilius Hirschfeld.

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rolls, thanks for the information! Another, unfortunately, forgotten the name. A painting is even good. Can you tell me whether you have this directory in 2006? It is interesting to glance. And if there was mention of Mikhail Stepanovich Tkachenko? He, too, since 1886 the number of retirees in France and wrote in Brittany.

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I have this directory is not, unfortunately.
M. Tkachenko, have not lived long time in Brittany, but only came to the sketches and then later. TK first he was a landscape painter, but under the influence of new friends, whom he met in Paris, artists, AP Bogolyubov and NN Gritsenko, he was "sick" marinistikoy. M. Tkachenko became one of the leading marine painters and artists quite quickly.
If a landscape painted in 1883, the second one - Imperial yacht "Power", written already in 1887 and the third - "Fishing boats" Brittany. 1894
And in general, Tkachenko was a servitor, in 1900, M. Tkachenko appointed artist and painter of the naval department of the Naval Staff. Awarded the Order of Stanislaus 3 degrees and medals. However, he has lived in Paris, leaving at large meetings and parades in Russia and in European countries. Great success was held in 1909 solo exhibition of the artist in Paris. It exhibited 62 paintings and dozens of sketches and drawings.

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Another work is Emil Borisovich.