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(1) David (Petrovich) Shterenberg
(b Zhitomir, Ukraine, 26 July 1881; d Moscow, 1 Jan 1948). Painter. He lived for a time in Paris, where he trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1906–12) and at the Académie Vitti, studying with Kees van Dongen and others. From 1912 he exhibited regularly at the Salon d’Automne. An habitué of the Café Rotonde, he was in contact with Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and many others. He drew on Cézanne’s works in paintings such as Flowers and Plaster (1908–9; priv. col., see 1978 exh. cat., p. 25), on early Cubism in View from a Window (1913–14; priv. col., see 1978 exh. cat., p. 51), and in 1916 he produced at least one abstract painting, Abstract (1916; Moscow, Tret’yakov Gal.).
Part of the Shterenberg family
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