Victor Palmov Explained
| Victor Palmov |
| Native Name: | Виктор Пальмов |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Samara, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Kyiv, USSR |
| Resting Place: | Lukyanivske Cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine |
Victor Nikandrovich Palmov (Russian: Виктор Никандрович Пальмов; 10 October 1888 – 7 June 1929) was a Russian and Ukrainian painter and avant-garde artist (Futurist and Neo-primitivist) from the David Burliuk circle.
Biographical dates
- Victor Palmov was born on 10 October 1888 in Samara, in the Samara Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- In 1911–1914 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHZV).
- In 1920–1921, together with David Burliuk, he travelled to Japan.
- In 1923–1924 Palmov was associated with the Moscow magazine Left Front of the Arts (LEF) — organ of the Constructivists and Formalists.
- Palmov was the founder of the Cvetopisy or Tsv'etopisi (Colour paintings).
- In 1925 he became the member of the Association of the Revolutionary Art of the Ukraine (ARMU) together with David Burliuk, Vadym Meller, Vasiliy Yermilov, Alexander Bogomazov and Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov.
- In 1927 he was the co-founder of the Contemporary Ukrainian Artists Union (OSMU) together with Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, Mark Epshtein and Anatol Petrytsky.
- From 1925 to 1929 he was professor at the Kyiv Art Academy (now the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture) together with Alexander Bogomazov, Vadym Meller, and Vladimir Tatlin.
- Victor Palmov died on 7 July 1929 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.
References
- Kudrytsky A. V. (ed.) 1997, Мистецтво України: Біографічний довідник (in Ukrainian) — Kiev, 1997. — p. 460. —
