Felix Lembersky - Timeline

Timeline

1913 Born in Lublin, Poland

1914-18 World War I Lembersky family become refugees and move to Berdichev, Ukraine

1928–29 Attends the Jewish Arts and Trades School (known as “Kulturliga Art school”) in Kiev

1930–33 Theater set designer at Jewish Theater, Kiev

1933–35 Attends Kiev Art Institute

1935–41 Attends the Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad

Tours the Urals, to collect material for his thesis

1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union The Siege of Leningrad (1941–44) Wounded during the summer of 1941 Lembersky completes his thesis in the besieged Leningrad Graduates with honors for academic achievement Parents perish in Berdichev during the Holocaust

1944 Returns to Leningrad Joins the Union of Soviet Artists Offers private art classes at his studio

1944–54 Works on commissions and portraits of workers, and heads group projects Creates Execution: Babi Yar series

1955 Creates triptych Leaders and Children for Anichkov Palace

1956–57 Novgorod and Pskov series

1958 The Urals Series 1959–64 Railway Pointer and Miners series and Staraya Ladoga series

1960 Personal exhibition at LOSSKh exhibition gallery in Leningrad

1950s–’60s Lembersky speaks out for greater freedom in Soviet art Organizes unofficial exhibitions of young artists

1970 Dies December 2 at his home in Leningrad