Gavriil Gorelov

Gavriil Gorelov was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher who lived and worked in Moscow as professor of the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts, was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of Russian Federation, and was member of the Moscow branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. He was born on March 4, 1880, in the village of Pokrovskoye, in the Moscow region, in the family of a well-known Russian master of animal and hunting paintings. He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1908, where he studied under Konstantin Korovin, Valentin Serov, and Abram Arkhipov. He participated in various exhibitions and painted battle scenes, genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. He was a founding member of the Jack of Diamonds and the World of Art groups, and with his brother Vladimir Gorb invented Cubo-Futurism, an approach that combined the geometric forms of Cubism with the dynamic movement of Futurism. He also collaborated with other avant-garde artists, such as Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, and Kazimir Malevich. He died in 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union, of a shrapnel wound he received during the siege of Moscow. His paintings are now displayed in various museums and galleries, such as the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is regarded as one of the most original and influential Russian modernist artists of the 20th century.