Died 1939-02-15.
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian and Soviet painter. His early iconographic work used special creative effects based on the curve of the globe, but its images were considered blasphemous by the Russian Orthodox Church. However he went on to become the first president of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. His autobiographical writings attracted much praise, and have enjoyed a later…
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culture · Russian painter · painter · autobiographer · writer · graphic artist · scenographer · art theorist · playwright · also Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, K. S. Petrov- Vodkin, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzʹma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, Kuźma Pietrow-Wodkin
Born 24 October 1878 · Died 15 February 1939 · Q364226
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1927· 1 entry
Petrov-Vodkin contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and had to curtail painting for several years
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1922· 1 entry
Painted a portrait of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova
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1906· 1 entry
Met and married Maria Jovanovic (1885–1960), a daughter of Serbian immigrant hotel-keepers
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1901· 1 entry
Travelled to Munich to take classes with Anton Ažbe
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1896· 1 entry
In April 1895, Burov died and for some time Petrov-Vodkin took different painting jobs in the vicinity of Saratov
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-10-24.
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