Yelena Genrikhovna Guro

Russian artist and writer
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Also known as: Elena Genrikhovna Guro
Quick Facts
Yelena also spelled:
Elena
Born:
Jan. 10 [Jan. 22, New Style], 1877, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died:
April 23 [May 6], 1913, Uusikirkko [now Polyany], Karelia (aged 36)
Movement / Style:
Art Nouveau
Cubo-Futurism
Notable Family Members:
spouse Mikhail Vasilyevich Matyushin

Yelena Genrikhovna Guro (born Jan. 10 [Jan. 22, New Style], 1877, St. Petersburg, Russia—died April 23 [May 6], 1913, Uusikirkko [now Polyany], Karelia) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, poet, and prose writer who developed new theories of colour in painting. These theories were implemented by her husband, the painter Mikhail Matyushin, after her untimely death. In her work she unified two eras in the development of art—Art Nouveau and the 20th-century avant-garde—in which she occupied a transient but vital position. Guro was born into an old aristocratic family. From 1890 to 1893 she studied at the school ...(100 of 378 words)