Mstislav Dobuzhinski - Artist Info

About Mstislav Dobuzhinski

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Mstislav Valerianovitch Doboujinski, Mstislav Doboujinsky, Mstislav V Dobujinsky, Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky, Mstislav V Dobyinsky, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky Valerianovich
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    Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky or Dobujinsky was a Russian-Lithuanian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early twentieth-century city.

    Of noble Lithuanian extraction, Dobuzhinsky was born on August 14, 1875 in Novgorod into the family of an army officer. From 1885 to 1887, he attended the Drawing School of the Society for the Promotion of the Artists. Between 1895 and 1899, he read Law at the University of St. Petersburg, simultaneously studying in private studios. After graduating from the University, he was trained from 1899 to 1901 by Anton Azbè in Munich and Simon Hollósy in Nagybánya (Austria-Hungary). In Munich, he came to be influenced by the Jugendstil. ...

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