Shekhtman, Manuil
.jpg&page=pages%5CS%5CH%5CShekhtmanManuil.htm&id=13935&pid=6821&tyt=Shekhtman,%20Manuil "Manuil Shekhtman: Refugees (1929).")
.jpg&page=pages%5CS%5CH%5CShekhtmanManuil.htm&id=13935&pid=6823&tyt=Shekhtman,%20Manuil "Manuil Shekhtman: Pogrom Victims (1927).")
Shekhtman, Manuil [Шехтман, Мануїл; Šextman, Manuïl], b 2 February 1900 in Lypnyky, Ovruch county, Volhynia gubernia, d 1941. Painter. He studied at the Kyiv Art School (1913–20) and under Mykhailo Boichuk at the Kyiv State Art Institute (1922–7). In the 1920s he belonged to the Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine. From 1934 he worked in Moscow. His easel paintings include Pogrom Victims (1927), Expulsion of the Jews (1927), Refugees (1929), and Horrors of War (1938). Under Boichuk’s supervision he painted the frescoes Corvée and Harvest Festival at the Peasant Sanatorium in Odesa in 1928. The were condemned as ‘nationalist formalist’ and destroyed.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]
.jpg&page=pages/S/H/ShekhtmanManuil.htm&id=13935&pid=6822&tyt=Shekhtman,%20Manuil&key= "Manuil Shekhtman: Mother (1929),")
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Click Home to get to the IEU Home page; to contact the IEU editors click Contact.
To learn more about IEU click About IEU and to view the list of donors and to become an IEU supporter click Donors.
©2001 All Rights Reserved. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.