Mark Veniaminovich Kremer

Russian Federation • Born 1928

Born in Pushkin, a suburb of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Mark Kremer represents the second generation of a distinguished artistic family. He studied at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry before completing his education at the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design. There he trained under several of Russia’s most influential painters, including Pyotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frenz, and Aleksandr Lyubimov—himself a favored student of Ilya Repin.

Kremer’s earliest and most formative teacher, however, was his father, the renowned Soviet artist Veniamin Kremer (1899–1978), co-founder of the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Union of Artists alongside Isaak Brodsky. Immersed from childhood in this vibrant artistic circle, Mark developed a lifelong devotion to realism, history, and the Russian landscape tradition.

Over the course of his long career, Kremer has produced an extensive body of work across portraiture, landscape, still life, and monumental composition. His paintings reflect the influence of great Russian masters such as Levitan and Kuindzhi while maintaining his own expressive touch and sense of light. A member of the Russian Union of Artists since 1956, he has participated in major exhibitions across the Soviet Union and abroad, with works held in the National Art Gallery of I. Aivazovsky in Crimea and in private collections throughout Europe, Japan, China, and the United States.