Luka Barbash

Luka Barbash (1914–1982): Russian sculptor, porcelain artist, teacher. Studied at the Mikhail Kalinin School of Art and Industry in Moscow, taught at the Bogorodskoe Professional Technical School in Moscow Region and served in the Second Leningrad Partisan Brigade and Red Army during the Second World War.
Born: 1914, Kurkovichi (Bryansk Province)
Died: 1982, Leningrad
Movements:
Porcelain

Sculptor, porcelain artist, teacher. Born in the family of Nikolai Barbash in the village of Kurkovichi in Bryansk Province (1914). Studied under Boris Lange at the Mikhail Kalinin School of Art and Industry in Moscow (1932–35). Taught at the Bogorodskoe Professional Technical School near Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad) in Moscow Region (1935–38). Served in the Second Leningrad Partisan Brigade and the Red Army during the Second World War (1941–44). Member of the Union of Artists (1947). Died in Leningrad and buried in the Cemetery of St John the Theologian at 31 Mechnikov Prospekt (1982). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1937), including Roads in Russian Art at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2004–05).

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