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IZO-Narkompros
IZO-Narkompros was the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education established after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917. It was established in Petrograd (St Petersburg) on 29 January 1918. An Arts Board (Khudozhestvennaya kollegiya) was set up to run the organisation: * David Shterenberg (president) – painter * Nathan Altman – painter, stage designer and book illustrator. * Sergey Chekhonin – graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator * Alexei Karev – painter, graphic artist * Aleksandr Matveyev – sculptor * Nikolai Punin – art scholar * Peter Vaulin – ceramicist * Gregory Yatmanov In the summer of 1918 the board was increased: * Vladimir Baranov-Rossine * Osip Brik * Iosif Shkolnik – painter * Vladimir Mayakovsky * Lev Ilyin Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin (; 1880 in Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire – 1942) was an architect from the Soviet Union. Between 1925 and 1938 Lev Ilyin was the main architect of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Karev
Alexei Eremeevich Karev (1879, Shilovka – 1942, Leningrad) was a Russian people, Russian painter and graphic artist. Karev studied icon-painting studio under Fyodor Korneyev in Saratov in 1896 and then until 1898 he attended the Alexey Bogolyubov, Alexei Bogolyubov School of Drawing there, before moving to Penza where he studied under Konstantin Savitsky at the Nikolai Seliverstov School of Art. In 1901 he moved to Kiev where he studied for two years at the Kiev Private School of Art. In 1903 he then moved to St Petersburg and attended the Free Studio of Art. He was influenced by the Symbolism (arts), French Symbolists and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionists. He is noted for his cityscapes of Petrograd/Leningrad from the late 1910s to the 1930s. He became a member of the Mir Iskusstva (World of Art group) in 1917 and in 1918 was appointed Commissar of the Imperial Academy of Arts#In the Soviet Union, Petrograd State Free Art Studios. He was also appointed to the board of wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |