Born in 1878, in Kharkov, in a poor Jewish family with many children. From early childhood he has been drawing with charcoal and chalk on fences, walls, on the floor. To thrust the boy to the drawing drew the attention of his stepmother sent him to a drawing school P. M. rayevska-Ivanova, where he studied for free. With gratitude all his life remembered Kazarnovsky artist Nikolay Vasilyevich Dosekin, who became interested in his talent and, leaving abroad, offered to accompany him, to which the young man, of course, agreed happily.
Kazarnovskii, I. W.. A Self-Portrait. 1939. In Paris, on the recommendation of sculptor Ilya Gintsburg, he enrolled in the Academy of Professor Cormon, where he studied from 1907 to 1910. This Academy had a reputation as an avant-garde school of painting. At Cormon in his time studied and Vincent van Gogh.
During this period, Isaac Kazarnovsky has written many sketches of Paris and its environs, visited Switzerland and other European countries, visiting museums of Venice, Brussels, Berlin, Geneva, Munich. At the Louvre he copied Rubens, Watteau, Leonardo, wrote to the interiors of the Louvre. Some of the artist's paintings remained in France. Apparently, they gave grounds to include I. S. Kasimovskogo recently published in London, "Catalogue of Russian artists".
Upon returning to Russia the artist visited St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vitebsk, went all over the Crimea with his easel and paints, wrote a lot of nature of Ukraine. In the last years of his life he spent every summer in the village. A particularly large place in his work takes Kharkov. Kazarnovsky tirelessly roamed the streets of his native city, trying to capture it in drawings, sketches, beautiful sketches and etchings.
In 1910-ies he was a member of the Association of Kharkov artists and a member of its exhibitions.
In the Soviet time continued to work as an artist and teacher in art school, organizations Vsekohudozhnik and Ubljudok.
Isaac Markovich married at a Mature age and were happy in family life. In 1924 a daughter, rose, who grew up beautiful, both happy and dreamy girl. The extraordinary impression she had his father's stories about France, about foreign travel, about Paris and the Louvre. Rose since the childhood was fond of studying of the French language, which subsequently affected her choice of profession of the interpreter. She inherited from her father a love of nature and the ability to draw.
But came the Great Patriotic war. In 1941, the artist's family hastily evacuated to Kazakhstan. With a heavy heart, left I. S. Kazarnovsky Kharkov apartment. Only a small part of his own works, the artist was able to take with you. It was mostly small landscapes and portraits, painted in oil, as well as several etchings and watercolors. Here's how it happened. Family Kazarnovskii left at the last moment, when it began bombing cities from the air. And suddenly in that tense atmosphere rose vigorously shook the contents of the suitcases and stuffed his father, choosing the most dear to her heart. And about 3,000 remaining of his works were lost (missing?) during the occupation of Kharkov, among them large landscape paintings, portraits, still lifes, and etchings and drawings.
Died I. S. Kazarnovsky 4 February 1942, in Kazakhstan, in the village of Lyubimovka, 18 km from the station of the Rapid, Chimkent region, where he was buried.
