Russian artist, one of the most significant and at the same time most characteristic painters of the circle of "Jack of Diamonds". He was born in the cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don July 1881 into a 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 1902, Mashkov opened his own art school. 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" and "Jack of Diamonds". He lived in Moscow, sometimes visiting his village and died there in 1944. |
