62 - Isaak Izrailovich Brodsky (Исаак Израилевич Бродский), Lenin with his military advisers (Ленин с военными советниками), oil painting, c. 1920

Isaak Izrailovich Brodsky (Исаак Израилевич Бродский), Lenin with his military advisers (Ленин с военными советниками), oil painting, c. 1920 Isaak Izrailovich Brodsky, 1884 - St Petersburg/Leningrad - 1939, a leading Soviet painter and graphic artist, one of the key founders of ‘Socialist Realism’, here: Lenin with his military advisers, oil on cardboard, 48 x 70 cm, minor colour loss at the top edge, signed on the reverse. About the artist: ‘Socialist Realism’ is an artistic style that depicts the life and leaders of the Soviet Union as authentically and heroically as possible. Brodskij became particularly famous for his meticulously detailed paintings of Vladimir Lenin and other politicians of the Revolution. He was the ‘court painter’ of the Revolution and the first painter to be awarded the Order of Lenin. Later, Brodskij became a professor and headed the renowned Academy of Arts in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). His former flat in St Petersburg is now a museum that is open to the public.