Drize Isaak

1909 — 2010

Artist-portraitist, master of lyrical landscape. The continuer of impressionistic traditions of the "Jack of Diamonds". Isaak Drize studied at the Moscow Art and Industrial Technical School (1927-1931), in the early 1930s in the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin in Leningrad, at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Moscow Art Institute (1936-1939) at the class of B. V. Ioganson, K. F. Yuon and L. Kramarenko. After the war and in the early 1950's he visited the workshop of Robert Falk. He worked in TsAGI and the Union of Scenic Art in Moscow. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1959 the artist took part in numerous Union's exhibitions.

For his life, Drize wrote hundreds of portraits of his contemporaries, and he is also known as an author of a beautiful landscapes, still-lifes and genre scenes. Drize has painted many portraits which were not accepted by the Union: the artist's vision was too original. He successfully managed to portray the "era in the faces": intellectuals, driven to the kitchen, pioneer girls, tired women with babies. At the same time, he manages to write with impressionistic lightness and saturation. However, being among the artists, disliked by the official art, he did not have a single solo exhibition. In 2005, the Central House of Artists held a joint exhibition together with A. Sofronova, organized by the Vellum Gallery. In 2010, the first personal exhibition was held in the library of the Moscow Jewish Society.

The artworks by Isaak Drize are represented in Memorial Museum of N. Zhukovsky, in private collections in Russia and abroad (France, USA, Israel, South Korea).