20th Century

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  • Wassily Kandinsky

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist, writer. Distant relative of Nikolai Bodarevsky. Descended from an old Manchurian family who were persecuted by the Qing dynasty and moved t...

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  • Nikolai Kalmakov

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Son of a Russian general and an Italian woman. Studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg (1890–95). Returned to Italy (1895), wher...

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  • Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

    Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Faculty of Law of St Petersburg University (1895–99), School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1885–87...

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  • Boris Grigoriev

    Painter, graphic artist, writer, teacher. Born in the house of Maria Gippius on Mashov Lane (now Chaplygin Street) in Moscow as the illegitimate son of an American governess called Clare Lindenberg a...

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  • Konstantin Gorbatov

    Studied at Fyodor Burov’s Classes of Painting and Drawing in Samara (early 1890s), Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing in St Petersburg (1895), Riga Polytechnic Institute and Benjamin...

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  • Natalia Goncharova

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Great niece of Alexander Pushkin ’s wife Natalia Goncharova (1812–1863). Born in the family of architect Sergei Goncharov (1862–1935) and Ekaterina Belya...

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  • Alexander Bogomazov

    Painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, art theorist. Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1902–05) and the studios of Sergei Svetoslavsky in Kiev (1905–06) and Fyodor Roehrberg and Konstantin Juon ...

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  • Alexander Benois

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art historian, art critic. Grandson of architect Alberto Cavos (1800–1863), son of Nicolas Benois and Camilla Cavos (1828–1891), younger brother of Alber...

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  • Léon Bakst

    Jewish painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, fashion designer, teacher. Born Leib Chaïm Israelevich (Lev Samoilovich) Rosenberg in the town of Grodno (Hrodna) in White Russia (1866). Studied ...

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  • Kazimir Malevich

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, writer on art. Born in Kiev (1878) to sugar refinery manager Severin Malevich (1845–1902) and his wife Lyudviga (1858–1942). Grew up in the villages of P...

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