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Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, theatrical designer, art theorist, teacher. Born to a family of Jewish merchants in the Pale of Settlement (1889). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born to a Jewish family in the Pale of Settlement (1881). Member of the General Jewish Labour Bund (1903). Studied at a private stu...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Younger brother of David Burliuk. Born in the village of Chernyanka in Kherson Province (1886) to David Burliuk (manager of the local estate of Count Alexander M...
Painter, graphic artist, writer, poet. Elder brother of Vladimir Burliuk. Known as the “father of Russian Futurism.” Born on a farmstead in Kharkiv Province (1882) to David Burliuk (manager of the es...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, art theorist. Graduated from the Military Academy of Medicine in St Petersburg (1892), working there as a lecturer (from 1905) and as a surgeon at Russia...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1898–1905) and under Jan Ciagli?skj at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1905–07). Member of Nikolai Kulbin ’s ...
Painter, graphic artist, lithographer, writer. Born in Torzhok in Tver Province to Colonel Georgy Jawlensky of the Russian army and his second wife Alexandra Medvedeva (1864). Grew up at the family e...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of sergeant Semyon Petrov in Moscow (1762). Educated at the Foundling Hospital in Moscow under the surname of Semyonov, which he later changed to Schukin (1782). ...
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, teacher. Son of Georg Dietrich Warnik, a furniture and cabinet maker from Danzig, who later changed his surname to Warnek (1833). Studied under Stepan Schukin and Dmit...
Painter, lithographer, photographer. Studied lithography under Carl Joachim Beggrow and painting under Alexei Venetsianov (from 1829) and Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1832–36). Awa...