Born: 16 December 1866; Moscow

Death: 13 December 1944; Neuilly-sur-Seine ,  France Modern geography

Active years: 1896 - 1944

Nationality: Russian

Art form: Painting ,  Decorative Arts

Art Movement: Expressionism ,  Abstract Art

Influenced by: Paul Cezanne, Robert Delaunay, Aristarkh Lentulov, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch

Influenced on: Josef Albers, William Baziotes, Alfio Giuffrida, Arshile Gorky, Karl Otto Gotz, Hans Hofmann, Nasreen Mohamedi, David Chethlahe Paladin, Egon Schiele, Oleh Sokolov, Yuri Zlotnikov

Art group: Blue Rose , Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) , Bauhaus , Degenerate art (exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, named to inflame public opinion against modernism) , Der Sturm , Neue Künstlervereinigung München (Munich New Artist’s Association) NKVM

Art institution: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich Academy), Munich, Germany

Friends: Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Vadym Meller, Alexej von Jawlensky

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