Art Nouveau

Stefan Erzia

Erzyan sculptor. Born as Stepan Nefyodov in the family of an Erzyan peasant called Dmitry Nefyodov in the village of Bayevo in Simbirsk Province (1876). Adopted the name of his ethnic group as a pseu...

Nikolai Bodarevsky

Painter, graphic artist, decorator. Elder brother of artist Ekaterina Bodarevskaya (1852–1939), distant relative of Wassily Kandinsky. Descended from an old family of Moldavian rulers called Cegodar-...

Vasily Belyaev

Painter, graphic artist, decorator, teacher. Born in the family of a merchant called Vasily Belyaev in St Petersburg (1867). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1886–91). Designed mosaics for th...

Elena Kiselyova (Chernaya)

Painter. Born in the family of mathematician Andrei Kiselyov in Voronezh (1878). Studied under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1898–1907) and at the Académie de Rodol...

Grigory Bobrovsky

Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Mikhail Bobrovsky in Vitebsk (1873). Studied at the Vitebsk Seminary (1887–89) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1893–1900). Painted female portraits in the Ar...

Veniamin Belkin

Painter, theatrical designer, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Pavel Belkin in Verkhoturye in Ekaterinburg Province (1884). Studied at the Tomsk Institute of Technology (1902–03), Konst...

P. Tereschenko

Jeweller. Worked in Moscow (late 19th and early 20th centuries), where he created gold and silver brooches in the Art Nouveau style.

Philippe Maliavine

Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in the village of Kazanka in Samara Province (now Orenburg Region) in a family of poor peasants called Andrei Malyavin and Domna Klimovna (1869). Studied at the ic...

Lyubov Hausch

Painter, applied artist. Born in the family of Nikolai Milioti in St Petersburg (1877). Studied under Alexei Korzukhin and Vasily Savinsky and graduated from the School of Drawing of the Society for ...

Alexander Hausch

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born to German merchant Viktor Karl Theodor Hausch (1845–1929) and Baroness Mathilde Amalie Luise von Hauff (1846–1907) in St Petersburg (1873). Studied at the Refor...

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