Tatjana Levitan, an artist from St.Petersburg, is an expressionist and has exhibited her works in southern Germany since July of this year. She concentrates on portraits, landcapes and still lives.
Her expressionist style developed directly from the roots of the Russian avantgarde through Salomon Gershov who was a student of Chagall, Malevitch and Fikolov in Vitebsk
For Tatjana Levitan her model is a symbol, a letter which testifies to the many mysteries of life.
Her paintings are deeply tragic and expressive and her models are only the starting point for the entry into an esoteric world. The artist selects her models and “writes”, as she calls it, the life of a person. While she does that, she turns into a medium. In this way she is able to show the conflicts in that person. This experience turns into a metaphore which she puts into oil and space.
                                                                                       Press Information Wörgl, 1997 (transl. Nowak)

... Thus Schönmetzler put the expressive paintings of the Russian Tatjana Lewithen who lives in Achenmühle, into the center of the exhibition. Her “Sitting Woman” dominates the room although, or maybe because her face is missing. Forceful colors and brush strokes do not take the melancholy from her pictures which show the person indeterminate and exchangeable. ...
                                                                                         Rosenheimer Zeitung, 1993  (transl. Nowak)

... Lately, Tatjana Levitan has exhibited her work several times in the Rosenheim area. In the Community College it will be mostly paintings from her time in St.Petersburg that will be seen.
Her expressively realistic pictures are characterized by glowing colors.
Her portraits are particularly impressive.
                                                                         Oberbayerische Landeszeitung, 1993 (transl. Nowak)

She did not have an easy life. In the former Soviet Union her pictures were banned, her expressionist paintings did not conform to socialist art. She painted in the underground and led a retired life. Only with the Perestrojka did her work come into the open and the name of Tatjana Levitan became known beyond the circle of her fellow artists. Because now, the 42 year old from St.Petersburg began exhibiting her pictures, not only in Russia but also in Germany. At first Tatjana Levitan showed in Southern Germany what she had learned as a student of Salomon Gershov who in turn had studied  with Chagall; now her portraits, landscapes, nudes and still lives can also be seen in Unna.
... “The paintings of Tatjana Levitan present a link between the avantgarde of the twenties and today’s art in Central Europe. For Tatjana Levitan art carries the hope for an understanding between countries” ...
Since the borders were opened the artist has traveled much already. That can also be seen in her pictures. Tatjana Levitan says:”Through contact with European sculptors, painters and poets my perception has become stronger, my colors are more intensive today.”
                                                                                                             WAZ, 5/25/1994 (transl. Nowak)

Now the German-Russian dialog is in the center of the 52nd exhibition in the gallery of the Public Health Insurance. Works of the St.Petersburg artist Tatjana Levitan can be seen there until June 17th.
... Thus Tatjana Levitan has also opened herself in her artistic expression after the end of the east-west conflict. Her pictures have become lighter and more colorful. Tatjana Levitan is an expressionist and has been exhibiting her works - predominantly portraits, landscapes and still lives - in Southern Germany since last July. It is particularly the human being that gives her important impulses for her work.... “She traces the life of a person with her brush and does not stay at the surface but goes into the depth.” ...
                                                                                           Ruhrnachrichten, 5/24/1994  (transl. Nowak)

Tatjana Levitan ... From the start of her artistic career she dedicated herself to portrait painting of which this exhibi- tion also gives witness with new pictures in expressive style full of colors and dynamic perspective, closely cropped and with fully modeled background. The still lives with glasses and fruits are full of light which is refracted and mir- rored in the objects. For some years now the artist has also painted landscapes in deep tones.
...                                                                  Oberbayerisches Tageblatt, 11/07/2001 (transl. Nowak)

   Tatjana Lewitan ...  constructs her poignant pictures of expressionist realism according to the musical principles of rhythm and harmony. She loves the poetry of simple things  ... such as a single flower or a jar, and prefers bright, lively colors: pastel green, pink or purple. The portrait stands in the center of her work.
                                                                       Oberbayrisches Volksblatt, March 2009 (transl. Nowak)
 

Version: 20091006