Kiro Urdin (1911 Minsk, Belarus – 1984 Paris, France) was a Russian post-impressionist pointillist artist. His noble family lived through the Bolshevik Revolution. Inspired from a young age by the greatest Russian and French artists of the time, he entered the Vilnius School of Fine Arts in Lithuania in 1931. He stayed there for only one year. The impact of the great French masters had such an important influence on his inspiration that he decided to move to Paris in 1932 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
During his career, he was followed and acquired by the most important Russian and French collectors. At his death, the Russian government intervened in Paris to recover all his artworks.
Rubens Prize Winner in 1978
Founded in 1955, the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen is one of the most highly acclaimed international art prizes. It is awarded every five years to a painter or graphic artist who occupies an outstanding position in European art due to his or her pioneering life’s work.