Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov January 8, 1883 December 3, 1941 was a Russian avantgarde painter, art theorist, and poet.
Filonov was born in Moscow on January 8, 1883 or December 27, 1882 . In 1897, he moved to St.160Petersburg where he took art lessons. In 1908, he entered St.160Petersburg Academy of Arts, from which, he was expelled in 1910.
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