Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel 🇷🇺

Михаил Александрович Врубель (Known as "Vrubel")
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Born Mar 17, 1856 🇷🇺 Omsk, Russian Empire
Passed Away Apr 27, 1910 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Lifespan 54 years old
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"Art is the soul's cry in the crystalline ice of eternity."

Archival Overview

Genius of Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau whose fractured, crystalline brushwork and haunting series of 'The Demon' anticipated Cubism and modernism.

Biographical Record

Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910 CE) restored Byzantine frescoes in Kyiv's Saint Cyril's Church, developing a revolutionary mosaic-like brushstroke that carved figures like multifaceted gems.

His lifelong obsession with Lermontov's tragic poem culminated in The Demon Seated and The Demon Downcast, whose metallic, tormented beauty reflected his own descent into madness.

Key Life Milestones

1890

The Demon Seated in the Garden

Painted the muscular, sorrowful fallen angel gazing over glowing crystalline mountains, heralding modern Russian avant-garde.

1902

The Demon Downcast (Demon poverzhenny)

Exhibited his fractured, peacock-feathered fallen demon, repainting the face obsessively every morning in the exhibition hall.

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Final Resting Place

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Novodevichy Cemetery
Saint Petersburg, Russia
GPS: 59.8978, 30.3256
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