Artist Biographies

The following are biographies of artists from the Tsarist, Communist, or post-Communist space. Here we discuss the lives they led, the works they created, and what they meant to the cultures they lived in.

Valentin Serov

Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, born January 7, 1865 (old style, January 19 new style) in St. Petersburg, is best known as one of the premiere portrait artists of his time. Working between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his work represents a drifting away from realism and toward the Impressionist movement in Russian art. The works for […]

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