Moses Feigin

Moses Feigin was a painter who worked in the Soviet Union through much of the twentieth century. Feigin was born in Warsaw and studied at the VKhUTEMAS art school from 1921 to 1928. Although he was trained in academic drawing and painting, he often experimented with abstract forms and vibrant colors as well as with innovative mixed-media works combining paint and collage. Because such avant-garde art was banned in the Soviet Union, Feigin earned a living producing socialist realist work while privately exploring his own forms of expression. This personal work found an audience abroad, and he exhibited frequently in Europe and North America from 1968 on. Feigin’s works are now represented in the collections of several Russian museums and have been the subject of retrospective exhibitions in Russia, Western Europe, and the United States.