Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine
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Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine (1888-1944) was a Russian painter, Avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurist).
Baranoff-Rossine was born in Kherson. In 1902 he studied at the School of the Society for the Furthering of the Arts in St. Petersburg. From 1903 to 1907 he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg.
In 1908 he had an exhibition together with the group Zveno ("The Link") in Kiev organized by the artist David Burliuk and his brother Wladimir Burliuk. In 1910 he moved to Paris. In 1910-1914 Baranoff-Rossine was a resident in the artist's colony La Ruche among artists such as Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Nathan Altman and others. After 1911 he had regular exhibitions in Paris.
In 1914 Baranoff-Rossine returned to Russia . In 1916 he had a solo exhibition in Oslo. In 1918 he had exhibits with the union of artists Mir Iskusstva ("World of Art") in Petrograd (St.Petersburg). In the same year he had an exhibition with the group Jewish Society for the Furthering of the Arts in Moscow, together with Nathan Altman , El Lissitzky and David Shterenberg. In 1919 he participated at the First State Free Art Exhibition in Petrograd.
In 1922 Baranoff-Rossine was the teacher at the Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow. In 1924 he had the first presentation of his octophonic piano during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow - a synaesthetic instrument that was capable of creating sounds and coloured lights simultaneously.
In 1925 he emigrated to France. During the German occupation Baranoff-Rossine, who was of Jewish origins, was deported and died in a German concentration camp.
