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Nathan Altman

This Russian painter had a great ambition to go into arts. However his family situation did not permit it. He therefore joined the Art School of Odessa where he learnt painting initially. Later he moved to Paris. His area of interest was sculpture, graphics and scene designs. He painted in conformity with the Cubist school and achieved great popularity. Eg: Portrait of Anna Akhmatova. He went to Russia and became active in politics. He painted many pictures of the Bolshevik Revolution for the Communist Party. This did not satisfy him. He therefore returned to France and resumed painting. Landscapes and still life paintings were his pet subjects. Later he took to Impressionism and illustrated many books for children and the Old Testament and also did interior designing. He returned to Russia and was confronted with ideological pressure and terror. Conforming to communist ideals he gave up painting altogether and stuck to book illustrations and saw his popularity plummet. His best works were scene and costume designs for Shakespeare plays Othello, King Lear and Hamlet.

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Lady with a Dog	Jug and Tomatoes.	Portrait of Anna Akhmatova.	Portrait of a Young Jew
Still Life. Colored Bottles and Planes	Material Painting. Still Life with a White Jug.	Composition with Material Objects.	Still Life
Square in a Provincial Town			Self-Portrait Nathan