Aleksandr Shevchenko

Aleksandr (Vasilievich) Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Васи́льович Шевче́нко; 7 June 1883, Kharkiv – 28 August 1948, Moscow) was a highly influential Ukrainian avant-garde painter and theorist. In 1913 he wrote the book 'Neo-primiivizm', from which the Ukrainian and Russian art movement derives its name.[1][2]

In 1890-1898 he studied at the Kharkiv Realschule, was a student of painter Dmytro Bezperchyi. From 1905 to 1906 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. During 1907-1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting.

References
  1. Grove Art Online, Shevchenko, Aleksandr (1883 - 1948), painter
  2. Grove Art online, Neo-Primitivism
  • Jeremy Howard; Ir?na Bužinska (11 February 2016). Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-Garde. Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-317-00103-4.
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