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Wassily Kandinsky - born 16 (4) December 1866 in Moscow, in a wealthy merchant family. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa, where his father ran a tea factory. There, along with a visit to the classical school, the boy learns to play the piano and cello and is engaged in drawing the private tutor. "I remember that drawing and later painting snatched me from the conditions of reality."
 Burliuk-Odessa Art School.
Although Sonia Delaunay just born in Odessa, but these names are enough to understand-Russian avant-garde was born in Odessa.

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Amshey Markovic Nuremberg (1887, Yelisavetgrad - 1979, Moscow) - painter, graphic artist, art critic.
  In the 1904-1910gg studied painting at the Odessa Art College Professor Cyriacus Kostandi.
 After graduation went to continue his education in Paris. He lived in the Latin Quarter in the environment of Russian artists. During the year, shared a studio with M. Chagall in phalanstery "La Ruche" (La ruche).
 In 1913 he returned to Odessa, where he led a group of modernist trend "Independent" and opened a school "Free Studio" (1918). Participated in exhibitions of artists from Odessa. After the 1917 revolution, was appointed the first People's Commissar of Art in Odessa, headed the Committee for the Protection of works of art and historic buildings in the town.

Izrailevich Boris (Ber Srulevich) Anisfeld (October 2 (October 14), 1878, Balti, Bessarabia - December 4, 1973, Waterford (pcs Connecticut), USA) - Russian and American artist, set designer.
Born in the town of Balti Bessarabia, parents wanted him to see the violinist.
1895-1900 - without special training received in Odessa drawing school, where he studied under GA Ladyzhenskaya and KK Kostandi, where he graduated among the best.
1901-1909 - as a graduate of the Odessa school, was accepted without examination to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, which was defined in a class battle-painting of Professor P. Kovalevsky, also known as masterfully executed images of horses, where he stayed for long. Then, again short-lived, studied at the Repin's studio, and eventually ended up in Kardovsky, a brilliant painter.
1901 - Member of World of Art ", also participated in exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists".
   Comedy is that the work of the Impressionist "not free", ie I understand it languishing in jail at the characters Anisfeld.