Biography and information
Moses Yefimovich Gamburd (until 1940 known as Max Gamburd, room. Max (Moisei) Gamburd; October 6, 1903, Chisinau Bessarabia province — July 14, 1954, ibid) — Bessarabian Romanian and Moldavian sculptor.
Moses (or the money) Yefimovich Gamburd was born in 1903 in Kishinev to the family of the husbandman Chaim Gamburd. Parents of the future artist owned vineyard near the village Nimoreni near the town of Calarasi (now in Ialoveni district, Moldova) and in winemaking. Studied at the gymnasium and Lyceum named after M. Eminesku, then in the Kishinev Higher school of fine arts with artist Sneer Kogan and sculptor Alexandru Plamadeala. In June of 1925 passed the exam to the undergraduate courses at the Chisinau Lyceum for boys № 2. M. Eminescu. In the years 1925-1930 were trained at the Brussels Academy of fine arts, after which he returned to Chisinau.
Participated in organized S. Kogan salons of the Society of fine arts in Bessarabia (Societăţii de Arte Frumoase din Basarabia). The first personal exhibition was held in Kishinev in 1934. Until 1940 known as Max Gamburd, and lived mainly in Bucharest.
With the beginning of the great Patriotic war — in the army, in 1943 transferred to Moscow, where he is involved evacuated the government of the Moldavian SSR. It also begins to work on the monumental painting "the Curse", dedicated to the tragedy in time of war (now the National art Museum of the Republic of Moldova). The parents of the artist died at the hands of Romanian occupation of Moldova.
After his return from Moscow in 1944, she has been restored and headed to Chisinau of the Union of artists of Moldova, in which then in addition to Gamburd included just three artists. He taught at the Chisinau art College. July 14, 1954, a few days after his solo exhibition in Chisinau and one of the most influential artists of the Republic, suddenly committed suicide.
In 1990-2000-ies in Moldova organized several personal exhibitions of the artist's work, including in 2003, dedicated to the centenary of his birth. In this exhibition were also exhibited in the work of his wife — artist Evgenia Yakovlevna Gamburd (nee. Goldenberg, 28 Jan 1913 — 26 Mar 1956), author of sketches of costumes for the first film of Sergei Parajanov "Andries".
Since 1999, the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Moldova awarded the annual "Prize of Moses Gamburd" in the field of fine arts award chart was Isay Kyrma (1999), artists Ghenadie Tychy (2000), Valentin Vartosu (2002) and Nicolae Coţofan (2004), the art critic Lyudmila Tom (2004). Among the disciples of Moses Gamburd — Ada Zevin, Michael and Fira Greek. The work of Gamburd is stored mainly in the National art Museum of Moldova.
Daughter of Moses Gamburd — Miriam Gamburd (b. 1947, Kishinev) — Israeli sculptor and graphic (see gallery), novelist (cf. a collection of "two-figured nudity"); graduated from the faculty of monumental art of the Leningrad Higher industrial art school named. V. I. Mukhina (1970), since 1977 in Israel.
