Russian, 1862-1945 Russian painter of Ukrainian birth. From 1881 to 1883 Pasternak studied painting privately with Professor Yevgraf Semyonovich Sorokin (1821-92), while working towards a degree in medicine. Switching to law, he also spent several terms studying drawing at the Akademie in Munich between 1883 and 1885. He had his first success in 1889 when his large genre painting in oil, News from Home (1.10*1.52 m, 1888; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.), was bought by the influential collector Pavel Tret'yakov. The painting reflects the influence of his German teachers in the sombre tones and the emphasis on the realism of the figures and setting. In 1889 he settled in Moscow and established his own art school.   Related Paintings of Pasternak, Leonid :. | Fable of Diogenes | Pilgrims at the Tomb of St Sebastian fg | Noc-turne in Black and Gold:the Falling Rocket (mk43) | Charles V at Muhlberg | Portrait of Louise-Delphine Duchosal |
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Bartholomaus Strobel
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