Brodsky was born on January 6, (by the current calendar and on 25 December by the old calendar), in Sofiyivka, Ukraine, then part.!
In 1896 he graduated from Berdyansk City school. Considered as the birthplace of the city of Berdyansk.
Russian painter and draughtsman of Jewish descent best known for his portrayals of Vladimir Lenin and other Soviet leaders.
Since childhood showed a talent for painting. From 1896 to 1902 he studied at the Odessa art school under L. D. Iorini, K. K. Kostandi and G. A. Ladyzhensky. Then he moved to Petersburg and continued his studies at the municipal Academy of fine arts.
For five years he studied at the Academy of Ilya Repin.
Isaak Brodsky was born in in a family of small traders.Between 1909 and 1911 for the money Academy traveled to Germany, France, Spain and Italy, in particular, visited on the island of Capri Gorky.
Before the October revolution of 1917, Brodsky participated in exhibitions at the Academy of fine arts and the society of South Russian artists, the Association of traveling art exhibitions.
From 1932 he was a Professor from 1934 . Director of the Russian Academy of arts in Leningrad.
In the vast, rich pictorial, sculptural and graphic works by Soviet Leniniana special fame and love enjoys one outwardly modest canvas.
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