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Father: Iogan (Ganya) Tsirlin
Mother: Elena Tsirlin
Spouse: Mira Cheryevsky
Children:
Biographical Information
Born 1917 in Leningrad. Died 1961
Took art classes at the Hermitage around age 15-17. Joined the army. Wounded several times during WWII.
In 1945 Ilya was assigned to a military team sent to Königsberg, tasked with recovering art taken by the Germans.
After the war Ilya moved to Moscow. There he married the art critic and historian Mira Cheryevsky, shortly before the birth of Yevgeny in 1948. They separated about 1959.
Ilya also became an art critic and historian and published several books. He was a friend and supporter of the artists Anatoly Zverev, Mikhail Kulakov, Alexander Kharitonov, Dmitry Plavinsky, Lydia Masterkova, Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev and the Armenian artists Martiros Saryan and Mariam Aslamazyan,
He was chairman of the critics' sectionof the Moscow Artists' Union of Cinematography, and director ofthe booksection of the main art publishing house, "Iskusstvo."
Hia student Galina Manevich wrote about him in a book published in 2006 (pp. 9-11).
Ilya died aged 43 in 1961. His separation in 1959 and an official complaint regarding his non-conformism filed with the party for his support of abtract art, leading to him being fired from his official positions, may have been factors.
Sources:
David Tuval (Jan. 2000)
Galina Tsirlin (2014)
David Tuval (2015)
2002, 2014, 2017