Eduard Arkadyevich Shteinberg

Eduard Arkadyevich Shteinberg — an artist of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde and a representative of nonconformist art. He was born in Moscow into the family of poet and translator Arkady Shteinberg. Shteinberg did not receive formal art education; he studied drawing under his father's guidance. After completing seven-year schooling in Tarusa, he worked as a laborer, watchman, digger and fisherman.

Shteinberg's first exhibition took place in Tarusa in 1962. In the 1970s he was a member of the art association “Sretensky Boulevard” in Moscow. In 1988, following an invitation from the French side to go to France with an exhibition, he was urgently admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR by order of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Shteinberg lived in Paris, Moscow and Tarusa. From 1988 he regularly collaborated with Claude Bernard's gallery in Paris. Eduard Arkadyevich Shteinberg died in Paris but, according to his will, was buried in the town cemetery in Tarusa.