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I wonder about Leonardo and Eddy da Vinci, and Paolo and Betsy Uccello, and Georges and “Buddy” Braque…there just aren’t many sibling artistic teams in the history of art, and in general there aren’t too many names joined by an ampersand unless they own an architectural firm or are a comedy team. The Stenberg brothers are a fair rarity in the world of art and design.

I just wanted to (quickly) pass along these images of designs by the Stenberg brothers, doing so without many of the titles of the works nor dates, sorry.   Vladimir (April 4, 1899-1982) and Georgii (October 7, 1900-1933) were fantastic designers and artists whose main work was done in the  Russian/Soviet revolutionary period from the late ‘teens to Georgii’s early and tragic death in 1933. (The date looks suspicious and Stalin-heavy, but he evidently was killed in a motorcycle accident).  The brothers were constructivist/suprematists or at the very least avant gard-ists, and worked along an extraordinary range of fields (in keeping with the Soviet art/philosophy of the time), designing theatre set and costumes and plates and women’s shoes and railway carriages and movie posters and so on, as well as painting and sculpting–just a tremendous lot of areas in a very wide medium. 

Most of the images below are their movie posters, which as a team were completed (in addition to doing many other things) during a nine year period up to the time of Georgii’s death. 

Here’s a sample of their work:

Battleship Potemkin, 1925.