ITRI tesori della Russia
I tesori della Russia

Highlights

Selected focal points of the collection, presenting major artist positions and groups of works.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
4 Selected works

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Central figure of the Russian-Ukrainian Avant-Garde and founder of Suprematism. With works such as the Black Square, Malevich led painting into a radically non-objective pictorial order and became one of the most influential artists and theorists of modernism.

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Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev
4 Selected works

Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev

Russian-Soviet painter, graphic artist, poster designer and one of the most important innovators of modern children’s book illustration. Lebedev united the Avant-Garde, Constructivist-adjacent planar organisation, political graphic art and pedagogical visual language into a formative visual system of the early Soviet period.

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Konstantin Ivanovich Rudakov
4 Selected works

Konstantin Ivanovich Rudakov

Russian-Soviet graphic artist, watercolourist, illustrator and stage artist. Rudakov combined Petersburg drawing traditions, the afterlife of Mir Iskusstva, satirical observation and literary book art into one of the cultivated positions of twentieth-century grad graphic art.

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Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin
4 Selected works

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin

Pioneer of Constructivism and central figure of the Russian Avant-Garde. Tatlin expanded art toward material, space, construction and architectural utopia. His Monument to the Third International became one of the most important unrealised projects of modernism.

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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov
4 Selected works

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov

Soviet director, stage designer, graphic artist and teacher. Akimov shaped the grad Comedy Theatre and united modern scenography, graphic precision and experimental direction into a distinctive form of Soviet theatre culture.

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