Mikhail Vrubel

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856–1910) was one of Russia’s most innovative fin-de-siècle artists, bridging Symbolism, Art Nouveau and the emerging currents of modernism. This biography traces Vrubel’s career from his formative years at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg to his untimely death, revealing how his visionary work anticipated the formal and conceptual breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Vrubel’s paintings, drawings and designs are examined alongsid