Biographies

Biographies

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  • Naugaut

    Graphic artist, painter. Worked in the industrial art studios of the Decorative Institute in Petrograd/Leningrad (1922–25). Contributed to exhibitions, including The Avant-Garde: Before and After at ...

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  • Sofia Schulman

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Gustav Schulman in the small town of Kybartai in Russian Poland (1860). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Art...

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  • Lyubov Mileyeva-Lanskaya

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer. Born in the family of a doctor called Fyodor Mileyev in Ryazan (1894). Studied under Jan Ciagli?skj, Nicholas Roerich and Ivan Bilibin at the Sc...

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  • Alexandra Jacobson

    Draughtswoman, lithographer, painter, illustrator. Wife of graphic artist Minei Cooks (1902–1979). Born in Irkutsk in the family of an exiled cabinet-maker called Nikolai Jacobson and his wife Maria ...

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  • Victor Dumanian

    Armenian sculptor, musician. Born in the family of Khachatur Dumanian in Baku (1926). Studied the cello at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire in Baku (1945–46) and sculpture at the Panos Terlemezian School...

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  • Pyotr Stroyev

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a rural clerk called Feona Stroyev in Penza (1898). Grew up in Tobolsk (first half of 1900s) and moved with his family to Irkutsk ...

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  • Alexander Schipitsyn

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of a peasant called Vasily Schipitsyn in Nizhny Novgorod (1897). Studied under Alexander Kuprin at the Nizhny Novgorod Technical College of Art (1921–25) a...

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  • Yvan (Ivan) Chouklin

    Sculptor, graphic artist, painter, teacher. Born in the family of an icon-painter called Andrian Shuklin in the village of Shuklinka in Kursk Province (1879). Studied under Sergei Volnukhin and Princ...

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  • Andrei Vasnetsov

    Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, decorator, teacher. Grandson of Victor Vasnetsov, great-nephew of Apollinary Vasnetsov, distantly related to Yury Vasnetsov. Born in Moscow (1924) in the fami...

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  • Arkady Lobanov

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Vasily Lobanov in the town of Berezniki in Perm Province (1901). Attended school in the town of Solikamsk in Perm Province (late 19...

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