A creator of geometrical abstract paintings, Edward Steinberg was born in 1937 in Moscow, Russia, into the family of poet, translator, and artist A.A. Steinberg. Shortly after his birth, his father was arrested by the Stalin regime and thrown into prison. Upon his release, the family settled in Tarusa, and Edward helped his parents in their pursuits, though he had no professional artistic education. He lived in Tarusa from 1957 to 1961, teaching himself t

Moving to Moscow in 1962, he actively participated in the nonconformist movement. In the 1970s Steinberg began creating his own version of geometrical abstraction (metageometry), where a plastic construction is seen as a consequence of a spiritual impulse.

The artist lives and works in Paris, France but also in Moscow and Tarusa. His work has been exhibited widely and is present in many museums around the world.

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website of the Russian Museum

Eduard Steinberg, son of a poet, already faced hostility in his childhood due to his father's imprisonment in the camps. After moving to Moscow in 1962, the self-taught artist initially focused a great deal on religious subjects related to death, burial and resurrection, which he artistically processed in an abstract geometric formal language.

In the 1970s he expanded his repertoire to include bright landscape paintings as well as gouaches and collages on cardboard. Suprematism and Constructivism influenced his work, with Kazimir Severinovich Malevich considered an important role model.

After the death of his father in 1984, the artist moved to the countryside, where he began to work on the cycle ®The Village¯. Since 1991 Eduard Arkadyevich Steinberg has lived and worked alternately in Paris, Moscow and Tarussa.