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1896
Set design for the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
Watercolor on paper
15.2x23.5cm
Bakhrushin Central Museum of the Theater,Moscow
Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers. china oil painting Mikhail Vrubel The Gingerbread House
