He came from an Armenian family, was born and brought in Crimea, trained in Russia, and travelled Europe and beyond painting ships and the sea.
Ukraine
Born in Ukraine, started his training there, trained in Saint Petersburg and then in Paris. But he died in Finland, and didn’t return to Russia after the 1917 Revolution.
Born near Kyiv, he started his training there. He quickly became a Cubs-Futurist, then a Suprematist. But he saw himself as Polish, and a member of both the Russian and Ukrainian avant garde.
Born in southern Ukraine, he trained first in Odesa, then went to St Petersburg briefly. In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he worked from 1925 until transported to Auschwitz in 1943.
A leader of the avant garde from 1914-30, he developed his treatise on art theory in 1914, and both painted and taught from it in Armenia and Kyiv.
From a Belarusian family, born in Poland, trained and launched her career in Kyiv, and built her reputation in Paris. Yet still served food in traditional Ukrainian ceramic pots and dishes.
Born in Kharkiv and trained in Moscow, he became a Neo-Primitivist after attending further training in Paris.
Leader of a school that flourished in Ukraine from 1910 until it fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937. Most of his visual art was destroyed.
Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022.
After training in Moscow and St Petersburg, he taught in Kyiv. Gained international acclaim at the Venice Biennale in 1928, but starved to death in the famine of 1946-47.
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