Lubov Rabinovich

Who is Lubov Rabinovich?

Lubov Rabinovich, was a Soviet Russian painter most noted for her works depicting rural life and particularly life in the newly created settlements of the Virgin Lands Campaign.

Rabinovich began her studies in 1921 at the Lepeshinsky experimental art-school commune in Moscow where she was taught drawing by Yakov Aleksandrovich Bashilov.The artist's work was first exhibited in 1925 as part of the 8th AKhRR Exhibition. Lubov Rabinovich studied at the Proletarian Institute of Art in Moscow, graduating in 1930.She went on to study at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad where she studied under A. Savinov and K. Petrov Vodkin. She was awarded a diploma in 1936 for the painting "Kuban, 1920 - The Reds Have Come".

The next five years Rabinovich taught in Saratov, becoming, in 1939, the head of the local artist's union. During the Second World War she supervised the "Agitokon" art collective.

After war Rabinovich came to Stalingrad and participated in work on the Volga-Don Canal.

In the spring of 1954 Rabinovich, with a brigade of fellow artists journeyed to southern Siberia as part of Khrustchev's Virgin Lands Campaign, working on a collective farm in the Omsk Region and at the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station. The artist later moves to the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok and becomes familiar with several scientists of the Siberian branch of Academy of Sciences.