Victor Palmov

Victor Palmov
Виктор Пальмов
Born	(1888-09-29) September 29, 1888 (age 136) Samara, Russian Empire
Died	July 7, 1929(1929-07-07) (aged 40) 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.

• Victor Palmov was born on 10 October 1888 in Samara, in 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 Kiev 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.

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