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Russian avant-garde

  • Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
  • Constructivism (art)Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko founded Constructivism in 1915. This movement emerged from the ashes of World War I and Russian Futurism.
  • Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia. His father worked as a local forester while his mother managed…
  • 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…
  • Russian avant-gardeThe year 1890 marked the beginning of a massive artistic shift in Russia. Artists began to reject traditional academic styles that had dominated the Russian…
  • El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.