16 Facts About Elena Guro

Elena Guro's career spanned the transitional period between Russian Symbolism and Futurism.

Elena Guro was the only female member of the most influential Futurist group called Cubo-Futurism.

Elena Guro was born in St Petersburg on January 10,1877.

Elena Guro's father was Genrikh Stepanovich Guro, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army of French descent.

Elena Guro's mother Anna Mikhailovna Chistyakova was a talented amateur artist.

Elena Guro spent her childhood in the village of Novosely near Pskov and at her father's estate in Luga.

Elena Guro inherited a government pension and property in Finland from her father, using both to support her artistic career.

In 1906 she and Matyushin moved to the art school of Elizaveta Zvantseva, where Elena Guro worked under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Leon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

Elena Guro contributed to the second volume of Trap for Judges in 1913.

Elena Guro is well-known for her fascination with the contrast between the urban world and nature, once writing in a short story about the psychology of people based in cities.

Elena Guro's fascination appears to have begun with the way a city looks, for example its street lights and gilded windows.

Elena Guro developed theories of color based on the Art Nouveau's basic principle of form creation and the Scandinavian folk art.

Elena Guro died the same year at her country house in then Uusikirkko, Finland.

Elena Guro's work is characterised by the syncretism of painting, poetry and prose, an impressionistic perception of life, the poetics of the laconic lyrical fragment.

An interest in Elena Guro was awakened by Vladimir Markov's work "Russian Futurism".

The archive of Elena Guro archive is kept in Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.