Aron Zinshtein

Aron Zinshtein was born in 1947 in Nizhny Tagil. In 1970, he graduated from the Interior and Equipment Design Department of the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design. The artist lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Aron Zinshtein is one of the most prominent St. Petersburg-based artists, equally famed for his paintings and art prints. In addition to creating hundreds of etchings and linocuts, he also designed countless printed publications. His illustrations can be seen in the books by Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and Okudzhava. The artist’s manner is distinctively expressive. His works are invariably brimming with movement, joy, and emotions. Zinshtein rarely paints from nature. Instead, he makes entire albums of sketches and only later, in his studio, turns them into paintings or prints. The artist is interested in all kinds of themes, including the simplest scenes glimpsed in everyday life.