IZO-Narkompros was the Department of Fine Arts of the

People's Commissariat for Education The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; russian: Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос, directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charge ...

established after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917. It was established in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(St Petersburg) on 29 January 1918. An Arts Board (Khudozhestvennaya kollegiya) was set up to run the organisation: * David Shterenberg (president) – painter *

Nathan Altman Nathan Isaiovych Altman (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: , transliterated: ''Natan Isaiovych Altman''; – December 12, 1970) was a Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian artist, Cubist Painting, painter, stage designer and book illustrator. Early life ...

– painter, stage designer and book illustrator. *

Sergey Chekhonin Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (born in Valdayka, Novgorod province Lykoshino, Tver Oblast], 2 February 1878; died on the way from Germany to Paris, 23 February 1936) was a USSR, Russian graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist ...

– graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator *

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 Bogolyubo ...

– painter, graphic artist * Aleksandr Matveyev – sculptor * Nikolai Punin – art scholar *

Peter Vaulin Peter Kuzmich Vaulin (1870-1943) was a Russian ceramics artist active in the first half of the twentieth century He originally worked in ceramic workshop of Savva Ivanovich Mamontov in the Abramtsevo Colony near Moscow from 1890 to 1904. Then in ...

– ceramicist * Gregory Yatmanov In the summer of 1918 the board was increased: *

Vladimir Baranov-Rossine Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukr ...

Osip Brik Osip Maksimovich Brik (russian: link=no, Óсип Макси́мович Брик) (16 January 1888 – 22 February 1945), was a Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, who was one of the most important members of the Russian formali ...

* 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 Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Пет� ...

* Vladimir Dubenetsky * Lev Rudnev * Ernests Štālbergs * Vladimir Shchuko. IZO organised twenty‐one art exhibitions between 1918 and 1921.

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{{reflist 1918 establishments in Russia Education in the Soviet Union Soviet culture