Background
Victor Palmov was born on October 10, 1888, in Samara, in the Samara Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the family of Nikandr Palmov.
In 1911 – 1914 Victor studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHZV).
Victor Palmov was born on October 10, 1888, in Samara, in the Samara Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the family of Nikandr Palmov.
In 1911 – 1914 Victor studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHZV).
In 1920 – 1921, together with David Burliuk, Victor Palmov traveled to Japan. During 1923 – 1924 he was associated with the Moscow magazine Left Front of the Arts (LEF) — organ of the Constructivists and Formalists. Palmov was also the founder of the Cvetopisy or Tsv'etopisi (Colour paintings).
In 1925 he became the member of the Association of the Revolutionary Art of the Ukraine (ARMU) together with David Burliuk, Vadym Meller, Vasiliy Yermilov, Alexander Bogomazov and Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov. In 1927 he was the co-founder of the Contemporary Ukrainian Artists Union (OSMU) together with Alexander Khvostenko-Khvostov, Mark Epshtein and Anatol Petrytsky.
From 1925 to 1929 he was professor at the Kyiv Art Academy (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture) together with Alexander Bogomazov, Vadym Meller, and Vladimir Tatlin. Victor Palmov died on July 7, 1929 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s most of his canvases were destroyed by the Stalinist authorities.
In Victor's oil paintings the subject and objects were subordinated to color and its associative effect.
In 1925 Victor became the member of the Association of the Revolutionary Art of the Ukraine.