Creator Record
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Name |
Akselrod, Meer |
Other names |
Akselrod, Mark Aksel'rod, Meer Moiseevich Aksel'rod, M. M. Aksel'rod, Meer Aksel'rod, Mark Moiseevich |
Dates & places of birth and death |
b. Molodechno, Russian Empire, now Belarus, 1902 d. Moscow, Russian SFSR, now Russia, 1970 |
Education |
Higher Art and Technical Studios (VKhUTEMAS), Moscow, Russian SFSR |
Occupation |
In the 1920s, he studied and then taught at the VKhUTEMAS School of Art. |
Relationships |
Zelik Akselrod, brother, executed in 1941 after protesting closure of Yiddish schools in USSR m. Rivka Rubina (Yiddish poet), wife Elena Akselrod (Russian poet and translator), daughter |
Places of residence |
Born in a shtetl in Molodechno in the Russian Empire (today Belarus). Relocated to Moscow in the Russian SFSR in the 1920s after his hometown fell victim to a Progrom in the 1910s. |
Role |
Artist |
Notes |
His work was barely known outside the former Soviet Union until his daughter, Elena Akselrod, published her father's biography and a representative collection of his works in Israel in 1993. Survived a Pogrom in his hometown of Molodechno, today in Belarus, and emigrated to what became the Russian SFSR. |
