The Society of Young Artists (russian: ОБМОХУ; Общество Молодых Художников) (OBMOKhU) was a collective of artists in revolutionary Russia. They experimented with spatial constructions and the properties of industrial materials. The group existed 1919 to 1922.

History

Following the Russian Revolution art education was re-organised through the establishment of svomas. The Stroganov School for Technical Drawing (later Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry) became the First Free State Art Workshops. However, by the summer 1919, the mass mobilisation for the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

currently involved in the

Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...

led to students graduating from the workshops joining up. However Georgiy Echeistov remained at the Workshops and joined the leaderless workshop first organised by

Boris Grigoriev Boris Grigoriev (russian: Бори́с Дми́триевич Григо́рьев; 11 July 1886 – 7 February 1939) was a painter, graphic artist, and writer. Biography Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School ...

in September 1919. *

Grigori Aleksandrov Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (russian: Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet ...

Nikolai Glushkov Nikolay Alekseevich Glushkov (russian: Николай Алексеевич Глушков; 24 December 1949 – 12 March 2018) was a Russian businessman who was the deputy director of Aeroflot and a finance manager for AvtoVAZ who died in ...

* Lydiia Zharova * Petr Zhukov * Klavdiia Kozlova * Nikolai Menshutin *

Alexander Ilyich Naumov Alexander Ilyich Naumov (1899-1928) was a Russian a painter, interior designer, book designer and poster artist who was active following the Russian Revolution. He graduated from the Stroganov School of Arts in 1916, but then continued his studi ...

* Nikolai Prusakov * Sergei Svetlov

References

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