Sherman Isaak (1911-1951)

Sherman Isaak (1911, Riga ― 1951) ― artist. In the early 1920s he worked as an apprentice in an artist's workshop. He studied at the Art Academy of Latvia and in Vienna. In 1927 he left for Paris, studying under Paul Colin, one of the founders of theatrical-poster art in France. In 1932 he returned to Riga as a well-known artist and joined the antifascist organisation of revolutionary writers and artists. In 1933 he moved to the Soviet Union and was accepted into the Union of Artists. In 1936 he carried out his last commission ― decorating a hall for the celebration of the adoption of the new, Stalin Constitution. He was arrested on 5 December 1936 and sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp. In Magadan he worked as an artist at the “Sovetskaya Kolyma” publishing house, illustrating books without his name being credited. He worked as an artist at the Magadan Musical-Drama Theatre. He was released in 1947 and worked in Magadan as a civilian employee. He died of a heart attack. He was rehabilitated in 1956.

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