IZO-Narkompros
IZO-Narkompros was the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat for Education established after the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia 1917. It was established in Petrograd on 29 January 1918.
An Arts Board was set up to run the organisation:
- David Shterenberg – painter
- Nathan Altman – painter, stage designer and book illustrator.
- Sergey Chekhonin – graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator
- Alexei Karev – painter, graphic artist
- Aleksandr Matveyev – sculptor
- Nikolai Punin – art scholar
- Peter Vaulin – ceramicist
- Gregory Yatmanov
- Vladimir Baranov-Rossine
- Osip Brik
- Iosif Shkolnik – painter
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Lev Ilyin
- Vladimir Dubenetsky
- Lev Rudnev
- Ernests Štālbergs
- Vladimir Shchuko.