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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...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Moscow in the family of Pyotr Ivanov (1893). Studied at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1903–17, with intervals), engraving under Vladim...
Artist. Born in Leningrad in the family of Mikhail Zubchenko (1937). Studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière and under Count André Lanskoy at the Académie Rodolphe Julian in Paris (1958). Assi...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Born as Georgy Pozhedaev in the family of Anatoly Pozhedaev in Pozhedaevka in Kursk Province (1892). Studied drawing under Jan Ciagli?skj (f...
Sculptor. Born as Yossel Tsadkin in the family of Yefim Tsadkin in Smolensk (1890). Studied at a school of crafts in Vitebsk and took lessons from Yehuda Pen (1900–04). Studied at school of art in En...