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Vladimir Burlyuk (1887-1917) 
Aliases: Vladimir Davidovič Burljuk; Vladimir Davidovich Burlyuk
Professions: Painter
Biography: Burlyuk
(b Chernyanka, Ukraine, 27 March 1887; d Salonika, Greece, 1917). Painter, brother of (1) David Burlyuk. He first studied at the Odessa School of Art and then, in 1903, with Anton Azbé in Munich. After his return to Russia, he became an active contributor to many of the newly formed exhibition groups there, among them Jack of Diamonds and Union of Youth. He also contributed to exhibitions in Munich and Berlin and was well aware of the latest developments in European painting, although he preferred to appear as an untaught ‘savage’. Mikhail Larionov’s primitivizing portrait of Vladimir , probably from the summer of 1910 (Lyon, Mus. B.-A.), shows him in a peasant shirt, carrying the heavy lifting weights that he brought along to poetry readings and art exhibitions.
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