Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant–Gardes

130 masterpieces of painting demonstrate the parallel development of widely different styles, design principles and aesthetic ideas. The avant-garde artists influenced each other and were sometimes in conflict with each other. At the same time you could find advocates of representational Expressionism and supporters of pure abstraction; styles like Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism followed each other in succession. Surprising contrasts of works visualize the differences, so that the successive conflicting –isms are clearly demonstrated. Through this visual confrontation the picture of all the many different forms of Russian avant-garde come alive.

Artists:
Nathan Altman
Mark Antokolsky
Marc Chagall
Nikolai Dormidontov
Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya
Alexandra Exter
Pavel Filonov
Natlai Goncharova
Boris Grigoriev
Alexei Jawlensky
Vasily Kandinsky
Arthur Klettenberg
Ivan Klyun
Vasily Kuptsov
Mikhail Larionov
Vladimir Lebedev
Aristarkh Lentulov
El Lissitzky
Vladimir Malagis
Kazimir Malevich
Sergei Merkurov
Semion Pavlov
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Lyubov Popova
Ivan Puni
Alexander Rodchenko
Olga Rozanova
Konstantin Rozhdestvensky
Béatrice Sandomirskaya
Zinaida Serebriakova
Wladyslaw Strzeminski
Nikolai Suetin
Vladimir Tatlin
Yury Vasnetsov
Mikhail Vexler
Konstantin Yuon