Mikhail Mikhailovitch Tarkhanov - Artist Info

About Mikhail Mikhailovitch Tarkhanov

  • Biography

    Mikhail Tarkhanov was born in 1888. He was a Russian avant-garde graphic artist known for his abstract, water-based textured compositions.

    Tarkhanov graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry in 1915. He later enrolled at VKhUTEMAS, where he studied under Vasili Kandinsky and Vladimir Favorsky.

    From 1932 until his death, the exhibition of abstract art was banned, so he secretly pursued his abstract work while working officially for various Soviet institutions.

    From 1919 to 1931, he was able to exhibit his beautiful, unique compositions a handful of times, alongside artists such as Natan Altman, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, and Alexander Rodch...

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