André Lanskoy
The Life and Origins of André Lanskoy André Lanskoy was born in Moscow on 31 March 1902. His early years were marked by movement across the Russian landscape. Following 1905, his family relocated to St. Petersburg, eventually settling in the capital in 1909. By 1918, he had moved to Kiev, a city where he began to produce his first paintings. These early works emerged during a period of significant upheaval, as he found himself fighting in the White Army during the Russian Civil War. The chaos of the war left him with an injury, which prompted a move to Constantinople. This displacement was…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of André Lanskoy's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.