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Painter. Born in Moscow (1927) and showed an early interest in painting (mid-1940s). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–46), Vasily Surikov School of Art (1946) an...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Studied at grammar school and Ivan Kopylov’s school of art in Irkutsk (1901–13). Attended a studio of art in Paris (1913). Returned to Russi...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, art theorist, writer, teacher. Born in Warsaw in the family of a university lecturer called Vasily Sterligov (1904). Grew up in Moscow, where he attended grammar...
Painter. Studied at the Ufa Studio of Art, Bashkir Technical College of Arts and under Pavel Filonov in Leningrad (1927–29). Enrolled at the Academy of Arts (1935) and studied battle painting under R...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Yaroslavl (1889). Studied at the Yaroslavl Studios of Art, VKhUTEMAS in Petrograd (1921–22) and the Academy of Arts (1922–26). Joined the Masters of Analytical Art (1...
Painter, graphic artist, lithographer. Studied art at a worker’s faculty in Kiev (from 1925) and the Institute of Proletarian Fine Art in Leningrad (from 1930). Transferred to the Kiev Institute of Ar...
Fabric designer, painter, graphic artist. Born into a peasant family. Studied at an arts and crafts studio in Petrograd (1921–22), at the Academy of Arts (1922–24, expelled by the student quality con...
Painter. Studied at the Odessa School of Art and under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Alexander Savinov at the VKhUTEIN in Petrograd. Joined the Pavel Filonov group (1927). Contributed to exhibitions (from ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in a worker’s family in Vilna Province (1904). Studied at the Prince Vyacheslav Tenishev College (1917–19) and under Nathan Altman at the Petrograd State Free Art Studio...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, actor. Studied drawing and painting under Ivan Kopylov at the Irkutsk School of Art. Moved to Petrograd (1922), where he enrolled at the preparatory clas...