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Latvian painter, teacher. Born at Jaužos in the parish of Zaube near Riga (1872). Studied under Arkhip Kuinji (from 1895) at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1890–97). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher, writer on art. Born in Moscow (1887) in the family of French chemist Éphraïm Jean-Baptiste Émile Bailly (1857–1927) and his Russian wife Maria Tsyplakova (1863–1944)...
Painter, engraver. Born in the family of a rich merchant called Pavel Lapin in Moscow (1898). Did not receive a systematic art education. Worked as a tutor at the Buddhist temple in Petrograd (until ...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Mikhail Oreshnikov in Perm (1904). Studied under Ivan Turansky in Perm, at the Perm Free Art Studios/Technical College of Art (1919–24), under Kuzma Petrov-Vod...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Mikhail Chernyshyov in the village of Nikolskoe in Tambov Province (1885). Studied under Nikolai Kasatkin, Abram Arkhipov, Valentin Serov and K...
Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Bystrenin in the town of Bolkhov in Oryol Province (1872). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev,...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexei Vladimirov and his British artist wife in Vilna (now Vilnius) in Lithuania (1869/70). Studied under Bogdan Gottfried Willewalde and Franz Roubaud...
Painter, graphic artist, poster designer. Born in the family of Isaac Dymshits St Petersburg (1889). Married Isaac Rosenfeld in Switzerland (1905). Studied under Sergei Yegorov in St Petersburg (1906...
Jewish sculptor. Born in the small town of Kraslavka in Vitebsk Province (now Kr?slava in south-east Latvia) in the family of Lvov Aronson (1872/73). Studied at the Ivan Trutnev School of Drawing in ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Serov in the village of Emmaus in Tver Province (1910). Studied under Savely Schleifer at the Vesiegonsk Studio of Art (1920s), under...