IZO-Narkompros was the Department of Fine Arts of the

People's Commissariat for Education The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; , directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture. In 1 ...

established after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917. It was established in

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(St Petersburg) on 29 January 1918. An Arts Board (Khudozhestvennaya kollegiya) was set up to run the organisation: *

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(president) – painter *

Nathan Altman Nathan Isaevich Altman (; ; – 12 December 1970) was a Russian avant-garde artist, stage designer and book illustrator. Born in Vinnytsia (now Ukraine), he worked in Russia, France, and the Soviet Union. His works combine elements of Cubo-Futur ...

– painter, stage designer and book illustrator. * Sergey Chekhonin – graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator * Alexei Karev – painter, graphic artist * Aleksandr Matveyev – sculptor * Nikolai Punin – art scholar *

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– ceramicist * Gregory Yatmanov In the summer of 1918 the board was increased: *

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* Iosif Shkolnik – painter *

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...

* Lev Ilyin * Vladimir Dubenetsky *

Lev Rudnev Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev (; – 19 November 1956) was a Soviet architect, and a leading practitioner of Stalinist architecture. Biography Rudnev was born to the family of a school teacher in Novgorod. He graduated from the Riga Realschule (no ...

Ernests Štālbergs Ernests Štālbergs (1883–1958) was a Latvian architect whose works are in the Neoclassical and the functionalistic styles. Štālbergs trained at the Kazan Art School from 1902 through 1904. His notable works include the auditorium at the ...

Vladimir Shchuko Vladimir Alekseyevich Shchuko ( rus, Влади́мир Алексе́евич Щуко́, p=ɕːʉˈko; October 17, 1878 – January 19, 1939) was a Russian architect, member of the Saint Petersburg school of Russian neoclassical revival notable ...

. IZO organised twenty‐one art exhibitions between 1918 and 1921.

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{{reflist 1918 establishments in Russia People's Commissariat for Education Culture of the Soviet Union