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Нина П. Голенкевич

Nina Р. Golenkevich
Samuel Kaner (1888-1968). The heritage of the artist
In the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum there are about a hundred paintings and graphic works of
Samuel Isaakovich Kaner (Samuel Kaner) created between the 1910s - 1950s. A native of Poland and
a graduate of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts (1907-1914), Kaner came to Yaroslavl in 1917 and lived
there for almost 15 years. Those were the years of Creative searching, the years of active participation in
the artistic life of the city and in the activities of such art groups as the Yaroslavl branch of the Academy
of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1925-1927), The Community of Fine Arts workers (1928-1929), the
Corporation of Yaroslavl artists - 1929. After leaving for Moscow in 1931 the connection of the museum
with the author was lost. The study of his work and contact with his descendants was renewed in 1990.
In 1999 the Yaroslavl Art Museum held the first solo exhibition Samuel Kaner (1888-1968). Painting,
Graphics, from the collection of the museum and heritage of the artists family, which allowcd the develop-
ment and characteristics of the author s Creative path to be seen for the first time. In the artists works, in
varying degrees, can be seen the influence of the school of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, European
artistic culture, Russian and Soviet art. The Creative works of Samuel Kaner have their own peculiarities
and bear the imprint of the age he lived in.
The task of the publication is to attract the researchers’ attention to the artists works, to write his
name into the context of the artistic culture of the 20th century - not only the Russian one, but also the
Polish one.