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...