IZO-Narkompros

IZO-Narkompros was the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education established after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917. It was established in Petrograd (St Petersburg) on 29 January 1918.

An Arts Board (Khudozhestvennaya kollegiya) was set up to run the organisation:[1]

In the summer of 1918 the board was increased:[1]

IZO organised twenty‐one art exhibitions between 1918 and 1921.[2]

References

  1. "IZO Narkompros - Monoskop". monoskop.org. Monoskop. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  2. "Narkompros". www.oxfordreference.com. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100222959. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
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