Oleksandr / Alexander Bogomazov (1880-1930) - Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurist) and modern art theoretician.
Bogomazov was born in Yampol the Kharkov Gubernia, Ukraine. From 1896 to 1902
Oleksandr Bogomazov attended the Institute for Agriculture in Cherson. From
1902to 1905 he attended the Kiev Art School (KKHU), in the same time he had a
close contact with Alexander Archipenko and Aleksandra Ekster. In 1905 he
participated in political demonstrations and strikes. In the same year he
expelled from the Kiev Art School. In 1906 he studied in the studio of
S.Swiatoslavskiy. In the same year he moved to Moscow and became the student
of F'odor Rerberg and Konstantin Yuon. In 1907 he returned to Kiev. After 1907
he had regular exhibitions in Kiev, including the Association of Russian
Artists and the Moscow Society of Independent Artists. In 1908 he participated
in the exhibition with the group of artists Zveno (The Link) in Kiev together
with David Burliuk, Wladimir Burliuk, Aleksandra Ekster and others. In 1911 he
had a journey to Finland. From 1913 to 1914 he studied the works of the
Italian Futurists. In 1914 he participated in organisation of the exhibition
Kil'tse ("The Ring") in Kiev, together with A.Ekster among others. From 1919
to 1920 he was a Head of the Department for Art Education in the Ukrainian
Commissariat for Visual Art. In the same piriod of time he was a co-founder of
the Ukrainian Agitprop Movement. From 1922 to 1930 he was teaching at the Kiev
Art Academy (KKHI) together with Vadym Meller, Vladimir Tatlin, Victor Palmov.
In 1927 he was a founding member of the Association of the Revolutionary
Masters of Ukraine (ARMU), together with David Burliuk, Vadim Meller, V.Palmov,
Vassily Yermilov and others.
Alexander Bogomazov died in Kiev, Ukraine.
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