A bit more about the exhibition organizer of the first exhibition of avant-garde art.
Kulbin Nikolai Ivanovich (1868-1917). Became an artist in 40 years in the rank of a privat-docent of the Military Academy of Commerce, the head physician of the General Staff, with a general's rank of Counselor of State. Organizer of the first exhibitions in the vanguard of the 1908 initiator coming to Russia, the creator of futurism TF Marinetti in 1914, exhibitions of 1908: The Impressionists. Petersburg, 1909; Vilna, 1909/1910; Salons B. Izdebsky. Petersburg, Riga, Odessa, 1909; Modern painting. Ekaterinburg, 1912; Jack of Diamonds, Moscow, 1912; personal, Petersburg, 1912; Graphic Arts, St. Petersburg, 1913; Free International Futurist Exhibition, Rome, 1914; Exhibition in favor of the hospital artists, Petrograd, 1914; exhibition leftist currents, Petrograd, 1915; Contemporary Russian paintings and drawings, Petrograd, 1916/1917.
Kulbin played a huge role in the formation of futurist movement, although his painting developed in the tradition of Impressionism and Fauvism.
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