Born on March 3rd 1937, in Moscow, Russia.
Died of pneumonia on March 28th 2012, at his home in Paris, France.
A creator of geometrical abstract paintings, Eduard Steinberg was born into the family of poet, translator, and artist A.A. Steinberg.
Shortly after his birth, his father was arrested by the Stalin regime and thrown into prison. Upon his release, the family settled in Tarusa and Eduard helped his parents in their pursuits, though he had no professional artistic education. He lived in Tarusa from 1957 to 1961, teaching himself to paint by making copies of still lives, portraits and landscape paintings of Tarusa.
Moving to Moscow in 1962, he actively participated in the nonconformist movement.
In the 1970s Steinberg began creating his own version of geometrical abstraction (meta-geometry), where a plastic construction is seen as a consequence of a spiritual impulse.
Since 1991, lives and works in Paris, Moscow and Tarusa.
His work has been exhibited widely and is present in many museums around the world, including a permanent room in the collection of the St Petersburg Hermitage Museum.
Eduard Steinberg - Monographie
Published by Köln, Wienand Verlag (1998)
Artist monograph.
Author: Hans-Peter Riese
151 pages; 99 illustrations, 24 x 29 cm.
ISBN. 3-87909-615-5
Edik Steinberg: Oeuvres Tarousse - Paris 1990-2012
Éditions Place des Victoires, Paris (2015).
Maquette: Gilles Bastianelli et Galina Manevich
Préface: Dominique Fernandez
Essai: Jean-Claude Marcadé
240mm x 300mm, French and Russian.
432 pages, 400 illustrations
ISBN: 9782809912722
Eduard Steinberg. Metaphysische Malerei zwischen Tauwetter und Perestroika.
Böhlau-Verlag GmbH, Cologne (Germany), 2005.
Essay.
Author: Claudia Beelitz.
German; 252 pages; 15,9 x 2,7 x 23,9 cm; hardcover.
ISBN 3-412-21705-0
Eduard Steinberg: Heaven and Earth: Reflections in Paints
Palace Editions, St Petersburg (Russia), 2004.
Catalogue of the exhibition: The State Tretyakov Gallery; The State Russian Museum; Ludwig Museum; The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation.
English; 144 pages; 24,5 x 22,5 cm.
Eduard Steinberg
Palace Editions, St Petersburg (Russia), 2004.
Catalogue of the exhibition held in The Russian Museum, St Petersburg (Russia).
Texts by Eduard Shteinberg, E N Petrova and Anna Laks.
English and Russian; 108 pages; 71 color illustrations, 2 color and 2 black-and-white photographs; 22.8 x 24.5 cm; hardcover.
Eduard Steinberg. Eine Monographie.
Editions d'En Haut, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), 1992.
Artist monograph.
Author: Jean-Pierre Brossard.
216 pages; 191 illustrations, 121 in color; 23 x 27 cm; hardcover.
ISBN 2-88251-038-1
Eduard Steinberg
© Barbara Klemm
Steinberg
© G.Bastianelli
'This room presents works by Eduard Steinberg (1937–2012), an artist belonging to the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, one of the leaders of non-official art in the 1960s–80s, a follower of Kazimir Malevich who incorporated ideas from Russian religious philosophy into his works. Eleven compositions from his period of geometric abstractions were donated by the artist’s widow, Galina Iosifovna Manevich, to the State Hermitage’s collection of contemporary art in 2014.' Text: Hermitage Museum Website.
Link Website of Hermitage Museum