A. A. Manevich

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Національний художній музей України

Scope and content:: Among the fonds’ materials are reproductions of Jewish-themed works by Abram Manevich (The Ghetto; The Synagogue; In the Town; etc.); materials on exhibits of the artist’s works during his life and posthumously at museums in the United States and Israel, and at a Jewish art exhibit in Warsaw (1921); copies of articles on and responses to the pieces (including a fragment of David Burliuk’s long narrative poem The Ghetto, which resonates with Manevich’s painting of the same name, exhibited in 1923 at New York’s Brooklyn Museum), as well as copies of obituaries of Abram Manevich published in the Jewish press; photographs of the artist from various years; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The artist Abram Anshelevich Manevich (1881-1942; AKA Abraham Manievich) was born in the city of Mstislavl’ (Mogilev province; now the Mogilev region, Belarus). He graduated from the Kiev Art School in 1905. With the assistance of Kiev Municipal Museum director N. F. Beliashevskii, he received a stipend, and continued his studies in Munich, where his first exhibition was held in 1907. At a personal show at the Kiev Art Museum in 1909, he exhibited several works on life in Jewish towns (The Ghetto; The Synagogue; In the Town; The City Awakens; My Cold Homeland; etc.).

From 1910-15 he lived abroad (in Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain, and France), and then returned to Kiev. He took part in individual and group shows, including exhibits of paintings and sculptures by Jewish artists (1916-18). He became a professor of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in 1917. From 1922 on he lived in the United States, where he had success continuing his artistic activities. He died in New York. Works by Abram Manevich are currently held at the National Art Museum of Ukraine and other major world museums, and in private collections.

Subject terms:: Art; Exhibitions; Jewish press; Literature; Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays; Photographs

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematised by document type: 1) Abram Manevich’s personal documents; 2) materials from his art shows; 3) Abram Manevich and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts; 4) letters to Abram Manevich; 5) articles mentioning the artist; and 6) photographs.