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Mikhail Vrubel
(1856-1910) |
(b Omsk, 5 March 1856; d St Petersburg, 1
April 1910).
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of
modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with
the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg,
where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he
felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The
Wanderers. He remained a lonely figure in Russian art, but
he was the only one of his generation who successfully
achieved the monumentality for which so many painters were
aiming.
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