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Portrait of Arman Aziber and Son. 1915
Filonov Pavel,
Oil on canvas
115 x 83
State Russian Museum
Пост.: 1977, в дар от Е.Н.Глебовой, сестры художника (Ленинград)
Annotation
Arman Franzevich Aziber: Husband of the artist’s sister Ekaterina Nikolaevna Filonova. Missing in action during the Battle of the Marne in the First World War.
Author's Biography
Filonov Pavel
Filonov, Pavel Nikolaevich
1882/83, Moscow -1941, Leningrad
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, poet. Studied at painting studios in St Petersburg (1897-1901), Lev Dmitriyev-Kavkazsky''s studio (1913-08), School of Drawing, Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1893-1901) and under Vasily Savinsky and Jan Ciaglinskj at the Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1908-10). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1910). Founding member of the Union of Youth (1910). Founded the Made Pictures studio of painters and draughtsmen and published its manifesto (1914; second version published in 1923). Helped to design the sets and costumes for a production of Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy (1913). Wrote the poem Chant of Universal Flowering (1914-15). Headed the Department of General Ideology at the Museum of Artistic Culture (1923). Helped to write the statute of the Institute of Artistic Culture. Formed the Masters of Analytical Art (1923).