Ilya Mashkov
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Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov (Russian: Илья Иванович Машков) (1881-1944), Russian artist, one of the most significant and at the same time most characteristic painters of the circle of "Jack of Diamonds" (Russian: Бубновый Валет).
He was born in the cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don (near Volgograd) 17 (29) July 1881 in the peasant family. After arriving into Moscow, since 1900 attended the school of painting, sculpture and architecture, where among its teachers there were Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. In 1909 he was excluded from the school for artistic free thinking. Much traveled in his student years, visiting a number of the countries of West Europe, and also Turkey and Egypt. Was the member of associations "Mir iskusstva" (Russian: Мир иску́сства) and "Jack of Diamonds". He lived in Moscow, sometimes visiting his village.
1902: Opened his own artistic school.
He died in Moscow on 20 March 1944.
