Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov (
January 8, 1883 – December 3, 1941) was a Russian avant-garde painter, art
theorist, and poet. In 1908, he entered
St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, from which, he was expelled in 1910.
In the autumn of 1916, he
enlisted for service in World War I, and served on the Romanian front. Filonov
participated actively in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and served as the
Chairman of the Revolutionary War Committee of Dunay region.
In 1929, a large retrospective
exhibition of Filonov art was planned at the Russian Museum; however, the
Soviet government forbade the exhibition from going forward. From 1932 onward,
Filonov literally starved but still refused to sell his works to private
collectors. He wanted to give all his works to the Russian Museum as a gift so
as to start a Museum of Analytical Realism. He died of starvation on December
3, 1941 during the Siege of Leningrad.
 A Man and a Woman 1912 | |
 Peasant Family 1915 | |
 Flight to Egypt 1918 | |
 Ships 1919 | |
 Worker in a Cap | |
 Collective-Farm Worker 1931 | |
 People | |
 Easter 1912 | |
 MOPR. Prison1927 | |
 Man and Woman | |
 West and East 1912 | |
 They Who Have Nothing to Lose | |
 Pancake Tuesday | |
 Rebirth of a Man | |
 Formula of Spring 1920 | |
 Head | |