Alek Rapoport [SEP] place of death
Alek Rapoport
Alek Rapoport (November 24, 1933, Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR – February 4, 1997, San Francisco) was a Russian Nonconformist artist, art theorist and teacher.
Early life and education.
Alek Rapoport spent his childhood in Kiev (Ukraine SSR). During Stalin's "purges" both his parents were arrested. His father was shot and his mother spent ten years in a Siberian labor camp. Rapoport lived with his aunt. At the beginning of World War II, he was evacuated to
strange power of these paintings, which remind us of the incandescent coals of Old Russian icons.""
By 1996, the artist almost never left his studio, completing "Anastasis 1", based on the apocryphal fourth-century "Gospel of Nicodemus". The painting was his final and most personal religious work.
Death.
On February 4, 1997, Alek Rapoport died suddenly and unexpectedly in his studio while working on his new painting "Trinity".
Main personal exhibits.
- 1980 –