kasachstan
Victor Popov is a constructivist artist originally from Kazakhstan (USSR) who has been living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany since 1991. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Lviv, Ukraine. In the mid-1980s he was a member of the artist group "Ostrov" in St. Petersburg, Russia, and has been working as a freelance artist since then, holding numerous exhibitions.
Victor Popov's work is built on Suprematism and Constructivism, with additional influences from Cubism and Futurism. His paintings are at once bright and aligned, free and structured, and there is always something painterly in Popov's sculptures.
Heinrich Vogeler was a German artist and philosopher, a representative of the German Art Nouveau. A versatile and talented artist, he painted, watercolored, composed poems, designed, designed and decorated. Over time, his style of art changed over a wide range.
During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, Vogeler was on the Eastern Front as a volunteer and made sketches, which resulted in his pacifist sentiments.
In the mid-1920s he visited the Soviet Union several times and his impressions resulted in paintings in his own "complex style: "Karelia and Murmansk" (1926), "Building a New Life in the Soviet Republics of Central Asia" (1927), and "Baku" (1927). In 1931 Vogeler received an invitation to work in the USSR. The coming to power of the Nazis in Germany made it impossible for him to return home, and after Hitler's invasion Vogeler among many was deported to the Kazakh SSR, where he died.
