Mikhail German died

Today, May 7, at the age of 85, the writer and art historian Mikhail German died.

This was announced by the artist Lyubov Kostenko.

Mikhail Yuryevich German was born in 1933 in Leningrad in the family of writer Yuri German, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin (1957), doctor of art history, academician of the Academy of Humanities, leading researcher at the Russian Museum. Member of the International Association of Artistic Critics ( AICA ) and the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

The author of more than fifty books, including Daumier, Antwerp. Gent. Bruges ”,“ William Hogart and his time ”,“ Antoine Watto ”,“ 1910-1930. Painting ”,“ Oscar Rabin ”,“ Mark Shagal ”,“ Vasily Kandinsky ”,“ Mikhail Vrubel ”,“ Complex Past ”,“ Parisian School ”,“ Modernism. The art of the first half of the 20th century ”,“ Impressionists: Fate, Art, Time ”,“ In Search of Paris, or Eternal Return ”,“ Impressionism. The founders and followers ”,“ elusive Paris ”.

Mikhail German also published many articles in periodicals on the problems of history and modern development of art, lectured in France, Poland and Bulgaria.

Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize, the Nevsky Prospekt Award, the St. Petersburg Government Prize in the Prose category for the book "Elusive Paris".