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Painter, engraver, applied artist, book and theatrical designer, writer on art. Nephew of Leonid Pasternak. Born in Odessa in the family of Osip Goziason (1898). Studied law and art history at Novoro...
Painter, applied artist. Born in Smolensk in the family of Ivan Vasilyev (1884). Studied at a private school of art in St Petersburg (1902–05). Awarded a grant from Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna a...
Painter, theatrical designer, writer. Born in Kherson in the family of Fyodor Andreyenko-Nechitailo (1894). Studied at the Faculty of Law of St Petersburg University (1912–17) and under Arkady Rylov,...
Painter. Born in Sobolyovka in Kiev Province (1885). In service in Odessa (from 1896). Moved to Paris (c. 1905), where he studied under A. V. Bougros and G. M. Bochet at the Académie Rodolphe Julian ...
Graphic artist, theatre and film artist, theorist of animated film. Born in Kazan in the family of Alexei Alexeyev (1901). Studied at the School of Arts in Ufa (1918–19), under Sergei Sudeikin in Par...
Artist. Born in Kiev (1919). Lived in Paris (from 1924). Studied medicine and attended the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière (1939). Took up professional painting (1941). Studied at the École superieur...
Artist. Born in Amasia in Turkey (1905). Lived in Paris (from 1923). Founding member of Art Concret with Theo van Doesburg, Otto Carlsund and Jean Helion and Abstraction-Création (1931). Died in Pari...
Armenian artist. Born in Baku in the family of Léon Kherumian (1903). Studied drawing and icon-painting under Pavel Korin in Moscow (1920s). Emigrated to Paris (1931). Advised by Georgy Yakulov. Foun...
Sculptress. Born in Nikolaev in the family of artist and poet Léon Zack (1918). Lived in Paris (from 1924). Took up sculpture (1956). Created religious vessels, statues in many French towns and a mem...
Engraver, sculptor, painter. Born in Paris in the family of a Russian father and Greek mother (1925). Introduced to Russian language and culture from an early age. Studied at the Russian school in As...