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Russian abstract painters

  • Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
  • Kazimir MalevichKazimir Severinovich Malevich was born on the 11th of February 1879 in Kiev, a city that now belongs to Ukraine. His parents were ethnic Poles who had fled…
  • Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Sergeevna Goncharova entered the world on the 3rd of July 1881 in the village of Nagaevo. This rural location now sits within the Chernsky District…
  • El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.