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Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, sculptor, illustrator. Born in the town of Melitopole in the Ukraine in the family of a Jewish cabinetmaker (Yiddish: tischler ) and his Georgian-Jewish ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in Kherson (1932). Lived with his grandparents in Voronezh after his parents divorced (1935–39). Moved with his mother to Leningrad (1939–41). Evacu...
Swiss artist. Born in Zurich to Swiss silk manufacturer Friedrich Baumann and Danish artist Else Lilly Hansen (1942). Grew up at Kilchberg on Lake Zurich (1942–58). Studied at Manchester Regional Col...
Edited and contributed to posters designed by Dmitry Bulanov for the Railway Board and the State Publishing House of Fine Art in Leningrad.
Graphic artist, poster designer, illustrator. Great-grandson of the Decembrist Vasily Ivashev (1797–1841), grandson of the feminist Maria Trubnikova (1835–1897) and son of revolutionaries Anatoly Bul...
Painter, theatrical and film-set designer, teacher. Born in Kiev to a Jewish painter of signboards called Moisei Rabinovich (1894). Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1906–12) and in the studios of O...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (early 1900s) and in the studio of Ilya Mashkov (from 1904). Member of the Knave of Diamonds (19...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Descended from Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (996–1002), whose great-grandson Prince William of Brunswick-Lüneburg arrived at the court of Pri...
Medallist. Born in the town of Kamenets-Podolsky in the Ukraine (1858). Studied at the Nikolai Murashko School of Drawing in Kiev (1876–80) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1882–88). Awarded a major...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of a priest called Ivan Vakhrameyev in the village of Permogorye in Vologda Province (1874). Graduated from Arkhangelsk Religious Seminary (18...