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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 - 1935) - Ukraine (Kiev Governorate Of Russian Empire)
Suprematism, Cubism, Geometric Abstract Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Pointillism, Cubo-Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Constructivism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement. He was a devout Christian mystic who believed the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling. Kazimir Malevic...... |
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Zinaida Serebriakova (1884 - 1967) - Ukraine (Neskuchnoye Estate)
Impressionism
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) (Russian: Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва Ukrainian: Зінаї́да Євге́нівна Серебряко́ва, 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1884 – 19 September 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter. Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of the most re...... |
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Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953) - Ukraine (Kharkov)
Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Post-Impressionism
Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Russian: Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. H...... |
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Mihaly Munkacsy (1844 - 1900) - Ukraine (Munkács)
Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844 – 1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. Munkácsy was born as Michael Leo Lieb (Lieb Mihály Leó) to Mihály Lieb, an bureaucrat of Bavarian origin, and Cecília Reök, in Munkács, Hungary, Austrian Empire, the town from which ...... |
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 - 1898) - Ukraine (Poltava)
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Николай Алекса́ндрович Яроше́нко 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 – 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898) was a Russian painter. Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army. He chose ...... |
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Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) - Ukraine (Kiev)
Cubism
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr Ukrainian: Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko Russian: Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич Архи́пенко May 30, 1887 – February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-born American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. Alexander Archipen...... |
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Nathan Altman (1889 - 1970) - Ukraine (Vinnytsia)
Cubism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism
Nathan Isaevich Altman (Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, transliterated: Natan Isayevich Altman December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. He was born in Vinnytsia, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukra...... |
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Marie Bashkirtseff (1858 - 1884) - Ukraine (Gavrontsi)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva Russian: Мари́я Константи́новна Башки́рцева, Ukrainian: Марі́я Костянти́нівна Башки́рцева 24 November 1858 – 31 October 1884) was a Ukrainian diarist, painter, and sculptor. Bashkirtseff was born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava to a wealthy noble family, but her paren...... |
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Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) - Ukraine (Snovsk)
Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government. He emigrated to the United States in 1923 ...... |
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Alexander Liberman (1912 - 1999) - Ukraine (Kiev)
Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became di...... |
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Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogaevsky (1872 - 1943) - Ukraine (Crimean)
Realism, Symbolism, Academicism
Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogaevsky (Russian: Константин Фёдорович Богаевский, 24 January [O.S. 12 January] 1872 - 17 February 1943) was a Russian painter notable for his Symbolist landscapes. Konstantin Bogaevsky was born in the Eastern Crimean city of Feodosia to an old Italian-German family of the Genoese extraction on 24 January [O.S. 12 January] ...... |
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Heorhiy Narbut (1886 - 1920) - Ukraine (Narbutivka)
Symbolism, Art Nouveau
Heorhiy Narbut (Ukrainian: Георгій Іванович Нарбут, 25 February [O.S. 3 March] 1886 in Narbutivka — 23 May 1920 in Kiev) was the most important Ukrainian graphic designer of the twentieth century. He is known for designing the Coat of arms of Ukraine, banknotes, postage stamps, charters, and his many illustrations in books and magazines. He is also...... |
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Ilya Kabakov Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk)
Ilya Kabakov (Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в born September 30, 1933), is an American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island. Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov h...... |
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Jacques Hnizdovsky (1915 - 1985) - Ukraine (Pylypcze)
Jacques Hnizdovsky (ukrainisch Яків Якович Гніздовський /Jakiw Jakowytsch Hnisdowskyj, pol. Jakób Gniazdowski, * 27. Januar 1915 in Pylyptsche Oblast Ternopil † 8. November 1985 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Grafiker und Designer polnisch-ukrainischer Abstammung. Hnizdowsky entstammte einer polnisch-ukrainischer adligen Familie, die z...... |
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Sonia Delaunay (Sarah Ilinitchna Stern) (1885 - 1979) - Ukraine (Hradyzk)
Orphism, Fauvism
Sonia Delaunay (nėe Terk, November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a...... |
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