Alexander Aizenshtat
Alexander Aizenshtat (born in 1951, Moscow) is a Russian-French-Austrian artist. Known as the founder of a new movement in world fine arts - metaphysical expressionism. He lives and works in both Jerusalem and Moscow. He is also known for following Orthodox Jewish practice, keeping the requirements strictly. Aizenshtat studied painting at the artistic school named after Serov at Prechistenka Street in the late 60s, continuing his studies in the studio of artist S. P. Skulskiy in the early 70s.
As a young artist, Aizenshtat was exhibited in private houses around the world, including Paris and New York. His works were sold privately. Since, 2010, he started getting recognition and exhibiting in Moscow including Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Triumph Gallery, Bulgakov Museum and others. In 2016, Alexander Aizenshtat’s artworks were exhibited at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts curated by Irina Antonova and Andrey Tolstoy (Director of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts (RAKh). Also, in November 2016, Aizenshtat's works were exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val curated by Zelfira Tregulova (a fine art expert and the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery). In January 2017, his series of paintings called «Spectrum of Life» were exhibited at Christies’s in Moscow. In the summer of 2017, the Gallery of the Frida Project Foundation, partnered with Sberbank also displays these series. The curator of the exhibition was Mikhail Slobodinskiy. In 2018, «Spectrum of Life» was exhibited in The Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt in Austria.
Alexander Aizenshtat's works are in Moscow Museum of Modern Art and in private collections throughout the world, including Aaron Frenkel, David Nahmad, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev and the Prince of Monaco, Albert II. He currently has exhibitions in Israel, Moskow and in New York and is currently represented by Bleier & Co gallery NY,NY.
