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Biography
1971- Studies theory and history of art at the Academy of Art in 1976 Leningrad (now St.Petersburg)
1979 Paints a portrait of Dostoevski commissioned by the Dostoevski Museum in Leningrad
1981 She is a student in the master class of Salomon Gershov who had been a student of Chagall and Malewich and was one of the few survivors of the Russian avantgarde from the Stalinist repressions in the concentration camps. He saw the portrait in the Dostoevski Museum and, recognizing her talent, opened for her the way to what today is called The Russian Avantgarde or Classical Modernity.
1994 Tatjana Levitan leaves St. Petersburg with her husband, the painter Genrich Kenne: The two now live and work in the West, in Italy, Holland, Austria and Germany.
Tatjana Levitan’s paintings were seen in numerous exhibitions in Russia, Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland, Israel and Germany. They have found their way into public collections such as the Dostoevski Museum in St.Petersburg, the Museum for Modern Art in Yerevan, the Municipal Museum in in Schaulei/Litauen and in the “Bildungswerk” and the Municipal Gallery in Rosenheim.
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