Alexander Alexandrovitch Osmerkin - Artist Info

About Alexander Alexandrovitch Osmerkin

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Alexander Alexandrovich Osmjerkin
  • Biography

    Alexander Alexandrovitch Osmerkin (born December 8, 1892, Elisavetgrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine; died June 25, 1953, Moscow, Russia) was a prominent Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, stage designer, and art educator, known for his contributions to early 20th-century modernism and his role in shaping Soviet art education.

    Osmerkin studied at the St. Petersburg School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists in 1910, followed by training at the Kiev Art School under Nikolai Pimonenko (1911–1912). He later joined the school-studio of Ilya Mashkov in Moscow, where he became the youngest member of the avant-garde group “Jack of Diamonds”, which championed Cézannism, Fauvism, and Cubism in Russian art circles.

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