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Artist, teacher. Born in Kiev in the family of Dmitry Krein (4 December 1940). Moved with his mother to Odessa (1946). Studied at a secondary school of art and Odessa School of Art. Moved with his mo...
Artist. Father of Alexander Krein. Born in Kiev in the family of Grigory Krein (1904). Studied in an unknown place. Worked for the Jewish Theatre of Drama in Kiev (1938–39). Evacuated with his family...
Artist. Born in the family of a priest called Ivan Lebedev in the village of Klimovo in the Ranenburg district of Ryazan Province (1900). Served in the Red Army (1919–20). Graduated from an unknown c...
Artist. Born in the town of Yoshida (now part of Tsubame) in the prefecture of Niigata in Japan (January 1920). Called up into the Imperial Japanese Army (January 1940). Served in China (from March 1...
Painter. Born in Tbilisi (1924). Son of Oscar Mayer, a doctor who trained in Germany before the First World War, was arrested on a false charge and died in a transit camp near Tashkent (1938). His mo...
Artist. Born in Saratov in the family of Mikhail Premirov (1912). Moved with his family to Samara. Arrested in his second year of art school (1934). Sent to Ulyanovsk and Ukhta. Worked in the prison ...
Artist, teacher. Born in Moscow in the family of Anton Potapov (1920). His mother worked for Vladimir Lenin’s office in the Kremlin (1920s) and as an economist under Polina Zhemchuzhina, wife of the ...
Sculptor. Born in Kamenets-Podolsky in the family of Onufry Rybetsky (7 May 1913). Studied at the art school of the Crocodile magazine in Moscow (early 1930s). Worked as a caricaturist and photograph...
Painter, sculptor, cartoon designer. Born in the family of Alexander Usaitis (7 September 1924). Graduated from eighth-grade school. Studied for three years at the 1905 School of Art in Moscow. Studi...
Artist. Born in Bremen in Germany (1872). Studied painting at the Düsseldorf Akademie der Künste (1890–95). Founding member of the Worpswede group of artists. Contributed to the development of Jugend...