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Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Anshel Manievich in Mstislavl in Mohilev Province (1881). Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1902–05) and Anton Ažbè’s school and the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Munich (1905–07). Taught at the Kiev Academy of Arts (1917). Emigrated to the United States (1921). Died in New York (1942). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1904). Contributed to the periodical exhibitions of the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1904), New Society of Artists (1907), Spring Exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1907), In the World of Art (1908), Society of Kiev Artists (1911) and Free Creativity (1915).