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Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in Leningrad in the family of an Estonian architect called Rudolf Vasmi and his Finnish wife (1929). Influenced by Nikolai Lapshin (until 1942). Studied at Len...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Grigory Weisberg in Moscow (1924). Seriously wounded in the Second World War and could only attend the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art as an oc...
Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, photographer, object artist, installation artist, illustrator, designer, applied artist. Born in the family of Boris Yankilevsky in Moscow (1938). Studied at the Mo...
Installation artist. Born in the family of Pyotr Plavinsky in Moscow (1937). His mother was arrested and exiled to Kolyma (1937). Evacuated to Omsk during the Second World War (1941–44). Returned to ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Moscow (1937) in the family of Arkady Steinberg (1907–1976), a poet, translator and graduate of the VKhUTEMAS. Graduated from a school for workers. Forced to find wor...
Estonian painter, graphic artist. Born in the village of Ühtri on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia (1924). Studied at Tartu Institute of Art (1945–48). Arrested in Tallinn with a group of fellow stud...
Painter. Born in Moscow in the family of a white-collar worker called Mikhail Krasnopevtsev (1925). Studied at the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1942–47). Taught drawing at secondary school. Studied ...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in Moscow (1926) in the family of a NEP businessman called Matvei Schwartzmann, who was often arrested and died in a concentration camp (1942). Educated in an ...
Performance artist, writer, actor. Born in the family of Yury Mamyshev in Leningrad (1969). Began contributing to the exhibitions of the New Artists and Serge Kuryokhin’s Pop Mechanics orchestra (198...
Painter, installation artist, writer. Born in the family of Nikolai Krasev in Leningrad (1960). Did not receive a special art education. Member of the New Artists (1982–87). Created installations and...