Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky

Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, theatrical designer, editor. Born in St Petersburg (1898) in the family of historian Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky (1863–1919) and his wife Elena Bekaryukova (1868–1942). Studied at the Mikhail Bernstein and Leonid Sherwood School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in St Petersburg/Petrograd (1913–16) and under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the State Free Art Studios in Petrograd (1918–19). Member of the Studio of Young Artists at the Council of Free Studios (1917–18). Edited the Ultramarine magazine and designed the sets for productions of Eugen d’Albert’s opera Tiefland and William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV (1918–19). Visited Odessa, Kherson and Kharkiv (1919). Died of typhus near Kharkiv on his way back to Petrograd (1920). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1920), including Museum in a Museum: Russian Avant-Garde Art from the Museum of Artistic Culture in the Collection of the Russian Museum at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1998) and 500 Anos de Arte Russa – Dos Ícones à Arte Contemporânea at Oca in the Parque do Ibirapuera in Sâo Paolo (2002).