Nathan Altman

Nathan Altman was a Russian-Jewish avant-garde painter, sculptor, stage designer and book illustrator born in Vinnytsia. After training at the Odessa Art School, he spent a year in Paris in 1910 at the Free Russian Academy, where he met Marc Chagall and Alexander Archipenko, and his mature style fused Cubo-Futurism with Suprematist elements. His 1914 Cubist portrait of Anna Akhmatova remains his best-known work, and he continued working in Leningrad until his death.