Zusman Leonid Pavlovich
Wedding. Illustration for the play by S.Ya. ...

Wedding. Illustration for the play by S.Ya. Marshak "Sorrow to be afraid - happiness not to be seen."
Year: 1965.
Technique: Ink, tempera on paper.
Size: 46,5х59,4 (в свету).

Signed and dated lower right.

Zusman Leonid Pavlovich (1906, GRODNO-1993, MOSCOW).

Painter, illustrator, theater artist. Born in 1906 in Grodno. After the birth of his son, the family moved to Moscow. Simultaneously with his studies in high school, Leonid attended private studios of artists F.I. Rerberg and A.E. Miganadzhian and was a volunteer in the first state free art workshops in the class of I.I. Mashkov. In 1924 he entered the Academy of Arts in Leningrad, where he studied with the remarkable artist K.S. Petrov-Vodkina In 1927 he transferred to Moscow to Vkhutein (Higher Artistic and Technical Institute) and ended up in the workshop of D.P. Shterenberg. In 1930 he graduated from Vkhutein and began to professionally engage in book illustration. In 1932, Leonid Pavlovich became a member of the Union of Artists, in the graphics section. During the Great Patriotic War he went to the front. During his military service, he also worked as an artist for front-line newspapers (Wings of Victory, Into the Battle for the Motherland). In 1944, after the hospital, Zusman was demobilized due to illness. He began to collaborate at Okny TASS and various publishing houses, and was also the art editor of the Vokrug Sveta magazine. Leonid Pavlovich Zusman participated in many Moscow, republican, all-Union and foreign exhibitions. Back in 1929, his works were presented at the exhibition of Soviet art in New York, in 1931 - at the Paris exhibition, in 1939 - in Brussels. In 1959, at the International Book Exhibition in Leipzig, he was awarded a silver medal. His works are in the collections of the Russian Museum, the Tver Art Museum, the Museum of Art in Tbilisi.