Leonid Mezheritski

Leonid Mezheritski was a painter who lived and worked in Ukraine and Israel, known for portraits, still lifes and landscapes.

1930 to 2007Psychological portraitsLandscapes of Odesa and GalileeStill lifes in oil

Born: 11 December 1930, Odesa
Died: 12 November 2007, Berlin
Occupation: painter

Leonid Mezheritski was born in 1930 in Odesa

Leonid Mezheritski was born in Odesa on December 11, 1930.

In 1955 he graduated from the Odesa State Art School, where he studied easel painting with D. Frumina. L. Muchnik and M. Mutselmakher also supervised his training.

From 1955 he took part in exhibitions in Odesa, Kyiv and Moscow, and in 1971 he joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked mainly in oil, painting portraits, still lifes and outdoor landscapes, drawing on French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In 1973 the Tokyo gallery Gekkōsō acquired several of his landscapes.

In the 1990s he traveled to Germany, Israel and Italy. From late 1998 he lived in Karmiel, where he painted a large series of Galilee landscapes.

He spent his last year and a half in Berlin and died on November 12, 2007. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery Berlin-Weissensee.