Boris Ioganson Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Boris Ioganson
The Life and Artistic Evolution of Boris Ioganson Boris Vladimirovich Ioganson was a Russian and Soviet painter and educator. Born in Moscow, his surname was a Russified version of his Swedish ancestors' name, Johansson. His early career included working as a stage designer in the theaters of Krasnoyarsk and Alexandria. During the Civil War, he served as an officer in the White Army under Kolchak before entering the service of the Red
Army. Ioganson studied at the Moscow School of Art under Kelin, Kasatkin, and Malyutin. While he was a member of the Society of Young Artists, where he argued for the transference of Russian art to Constructivism, he eventually abandoned that cause for easel painting. In 1922, he helped found the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, eventually moving into the realm of Socialist Realism. His work often featured narrative el…