| Dedicated to wonderful person, my virtual friend Patriczia ( Thanks to Mykhailo Mykhailovych Tarkhan(Михайло Михайлович Тархан) or MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH TARKHANOV(Михаил Михайлович Тарханов), Ukrainian and Russian Soviet Avant-garde graphic artist. Born in Zin'kiv in Ukrainian or Zen'kov in Russian (Poltava Region, Ukraine). Lived in Ukraine, then in Moscow. Tarkhanov began to study art in 1905, when he entered the famous Stroganoff Art Institute (which later became VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow. His schoolmates during this period included D. Burliuk, V. Mayakovsky, and other artists who soon became prominent in the Russian avant-garde. He graduated and received his MA in Applied and Decorative Arts in 1915. He was called to the Russian Army in Tzaritzin on the Volga river in 1916 as an artist-topographer. In April 1918 he was hospitalized and released and came back to Moscow.He was called to the Russian "Red" Army again in July 1919 and served in the First Moscow Reserve Division through January 1921. In 1921, he became a draftsman at the Moscow District Military-Engineering Committee. Tarkhanov continued his studies at VKhUTEMAS, the famous school of Russian Avant-garde art from 1921 through 1927 under such prominent Russian Avant-garde artists as Vasili (Wassily) Kandinsky, Vladimir Favorsky, and Nikolay Kupreyanov Friend of V. Favorsky and V. Kandinsky. Exhibited in 1919 (Moscow) with Rodchenko; in 1926 (Moscow) with Kliun, Lissitzky; in 1931 (Paris) with Altman, Klutsis ... |
