Myhaylo Shteinberg Art

Russian Abstract Expressionist Village Oil Painting Soviet Non Conformist Frame: 27.5 X 27.5 Image: 19.5 X 19.5 Artist: Myhaylo Shteinberg (aka Mykhaylo Shteinberg, Michael Steinberg) The Russian artist Michael Steinberg was born in Kishinev (Russia) in 1933. He started painting in the latter part of the 1950s in the city of Lvov. Shteinberg was a key figure of the nonconformist avant garde movement in the Soviet era and painted in the genres of surrealism and expressionism. In the 1970s he was quite active in the artistic life of Lvov and Moscow and in 1974 he participated in the famous "Bulldozer Exhibition". The “Bulldozer Exhibition” became was the apogee of unofficial art's history. In 1974, in the Moscow park Belyaevo, the authorities destroyed art by many unofficial artists, among them Oskar Rabin, Lidia Masterkova, Evgeny Rukhin...