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Pavel Filonov (1883-1941)  

Aliases: Pavel (1883) Filonov; Pavel Nikolaevič Filonov; Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov; Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov; Pawel Nikolajewitsch Filonow
Professions: Painter

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Biography

(b Moscow, 20 Jan 1883; d Leningrad [now St Petersburg], 3 Dec 1941). Russian painter, graphic artist and poet. He came from a working-class background; orphaned in childhood, he moved to St Petersburg, where he earned money through embroidery, house painting, restoring buildings and icons, and other tasks such as retouching photographs and making posters and wrappers for goods (a practical apprenticeship he never forgot). His interest in drawing and painting developed through copying, making ... (view more)

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