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David Petrovich Shterenberg
1926
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The Russian painter David Petrovich Shterenberg was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, and studied art in Odessa and then in Paris, where he lived from 1906 to 1912 and was a member of the East European Jewish artistic colony. He did not return to Russia permanently until 1917. In the 1930s, his avant-garde individualism, shaped during his Paris years, fell out of favor with the regime and he was forced to work in a more realistic style. This did not spare him, however, from being marginalized by the Soviet art world.
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