Eduard Arkadevich Steinberg' (in Russian Эдуард Аркадьевич Штейнберг), born in Moscow 3 March 1937, is a Russian painter, philosopher and dissident

Dissident

A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....

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Personal life

Steinberg is the son of poet and author Arkady Steinberg.

Steinberg has residences in Tarusa

Tarusa

Tarusa is a town and the administrative center of Tarussky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River, south of Serpukhov, northeast of Kaluga, and about south of Moscow. Population:...

(Kaluga region) and Paris.

Steinberg's wife, Galina Iosifovna Manevich, is a Russian art critic, author and essayist.

Career

Steinberg began his career drawing live models and landscapes and later switched to "metaphysical still lifes".

In the 1960-1980s Steinberg participated in the dissident movement in the USSR, which supported freedom of expression in arts and basic human rights.

External links

• Bilder von Eduard Steinberg (in German)