Aleksandr Rodchenko
Art with a message
1891 – 1956
Aleksandra Ekster
Rhythm and dynamic movement
1882 – 1949
Alexej Von Jawlensky
1864 – 1941
El Lissitzky
Painting symbols of a new world
1890 – 1941
Erté
1892 – 1990
Ilya Repin
Realism is not always nice
1844 – 1930
Ivan Aivazovsky
A military painter sponsored by the state—smells like propaganda
1817 – 1900
Katarzyna Kobro
A life's work lost to war
1898 – 1951
Liubov Popova
We shall remake the world
1889 – 1924
Marianne von Werefkin
1860 – 1938
Mark Rothko
The hope of transcendence through color
1903 – 1970
Mikhail Vrubel
The man who fell in love with a demon
1856 – 1910
Natalia Goncharova
Art-Punk in Futurist Moscow
1881 – 1962
Naum Gabo
Finding the calm center in the storm
1890 – 1977
Nicholas Roerich
Follow your bliss
1874 – 1947
Olga Rozanova
The intellectual mother of Abstract Expressionism
1886 – 1918
Pavel Tchelitchew
1898 – 1957
Peter Carl Fabergé
Eggs for rich people
1846 – 1920
Sascha Schneider
Admiration for the body
1870 – 1927
Vasily Vereshchagin
1842 – 1904
Wassily Kandinsky
How to paint music
1866 – 1944