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Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of an office worker called Mikhail Gluskin in Odessa (1899). Studied under Vladimir Sause at Odessa Commercial College (1909–17), at Joel-Rubin Bershadsky’s private school of art in Odessa (1914–16) and under Joel-Rubin Bershadsky and Kyriakos Kostandi at the Odessa School of Art (1916–21). Worked for the Russian Telegraph Agency in Odessa (192...