A creator of geometrical abstract paintings, Eduard Steinberg was born in 1937 into the family of poet, translator, and artist A.A. Steinberg. Shortly after his birth, his father was arrested by Stalin's regime and thrown into prison. Upon his release, the family settled in Tarusa and Eduard helped his parents in their pursuits, though he had no professional artistic education. He lived in Tarusa from 1957 to 1961, teaching himself to paint by making copies of still lifes, portraits and landscape paintings of Tarusa. Moving to Moscow in 1962, he actively participated in the nonconformist movement which supported freedom of expression in arts and basic human rights. In the 1970s Steinberg began creating his own version of geometrical abstraction where a plastic construction is seen as a consequence of a spiritual impulse. In 1992, the Tretyakov gallery organized a major exhibition of Steinberg’s works, the first one dedicated entirely to the artist. Since then, his work has been exhibited widely and is present in many museums around the world. Steinberg died in 2012 in Paris.
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1937