Leonid Pasternak. Leonid Osipovich Pasternak was a Russian post-impressionist painter.
He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. Pasternak was born in Odessa to an Orthodox Jewish family on 4 April 1862.
The family claimed to be distantly descended, in one line, from Isaac Abrabanel, the 15th-century Jewish philosopher and treasurer of Portugal, although no independent evidence of this exists. Leonid's father made an income by renting out a guest house.
The courtyard of the guest house, with its adjoining coach-house, first awakened Leonid's artistic imagination. He was the youngest of six children.
He started to draw very early, but his family tried to discourage him, as they feared that his drawing would interfere with his studies. His first sponsor was the local street cleaner who began buying Pasternak's art when Leonid was seven years old. During 1879-81 Leonid Pasternak was a graduate of the Grekov Odessa Art school. From 1881 to 1885, Leonid studied at Moscow University, first in the Department of Medicine, then at the Department of Law. Eventually he decided to devote his life to art and entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from which he graduated in 1887. He returned to Russia, served the compulsory two years in the Imperial Russian Army and in 1889 started a career as a full-time painter. The start of his career was very successful. His first exhibited pai
He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. Pasternak was born in Odessa to an Orthodox Jewish family on 4 April 1862.
The family claimed to be distantly descended, in one line, from Isaac Abrabanel, the 15th-century Jewish philosopher and treasurer of Portugal, although no independent evidence of this exists. Leonid's father made an income by renting out a guest house.
The courtyard of the guest house, with its adjoining coach-house, first awakened Leonid's artistic imagination. He was the youngest of six children.
He started to draw very early, but his family tried to discourage him, as they feared that his drawing would interfere with his studies. His first sponsor was the local street cleaner who began buying Pasternak's art when Leonid was seven years old. During 1879-81 Leonid Pasternak was a graduate of the Grekov Odessa Art school. From 1881 to 1885, Leonid studied at Moscow University, first in the Department of Medicine, then at the Department of Law. Eventually he decided to devote his life to art and entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from which he graduated in 1887. He returned to Russia, served the compulsory two years in the Imperial Russian Army and in 1889 started a career as a full-time painter. The start of his career was very successful. His first exhibited pai
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