シベリアのオムスクに生まれました。サンクトペテルブルク大学で法律を学んだあと、美術アカデミーに入り直します。キーウの古い教会で壁画の修復や新しい壁画の制作にたずさわったのち、モスクワで活躍しました。油絵のほか、陶器や舞台美術、建物の飾りまで手がけます。モザイクのように色を重ねる独特の画風で、ロシア象徴主義を代表する画家となりました。
Vrubel was born in Omsk, Siberia. He studied law at St Petersburg University, then started again at the Academy of Arts. After restoring old murals and painting new ones in a church in Kyiv, he worked in Moscow. Besides oil paintings, he made ceramics, stage designs and decorations for buildings. With his unique style, building up color like a mosaic, he became a leading painter of Russian Symbolism.
