Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné

Vladimir Davidovich Baranov-Rossiné, also spelled Baranoff-Rossiné (; 13 January 1888, Velyka Lepetykha – January 1944, Auschwitz), born Shulim Wolf Leib Baranov, was a painter and sculptor active in Russia and France. His work belonged to the avant-garde movement of Cubo-Futurism. He was also an inventor, author of several patents.

Biography

Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné was born in Kherson, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) in a Jewish family.

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 entered the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, but was expelled in 1909, just after his first year, for not attending classes. In 1908 he exhibited with the group Zveno (The Link) in Kyiv organized by the artist David Burliuk and his brother Wladimir Burliuk.

In 1910, he moved to Paris, where until 1914 he was a resident in the artist's colony La Ruche together with Alexander Archipenko, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Nathan Altman and others. He exhibited regularly in Paris after 1911.

He returned to Russia in 1914, then lived in Norway throughout the First World War.