Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov - Artist Info

About Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov

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Paul Varfolomeevitch Kouznetsov, Pawel Warfolomejewitsch Kusnezoff, Pavel Kutnetsov
  • Biography

    Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891-6), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a year in Paris (1905).

    His early paintings were exhibited by the Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated with the Russian Symbolists. He helped to organize the Crimson Rose exhibition (1904) and was a founder and leader of the Blue Rose in 1907.

    He taught at the Stroganov Institute (1917–18; 1945-8) and at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1918–37). He headed the painting section of Narkompros until 1921, but fell out of official favour with the advent of Socialist Realism.

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