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Chana Orloff

Sculptress, graphic artist, applied artist. Born in Tsare-Konstantinovka in Don Province (1888). Worked as a dressmaker after emigrating with her family to Palestine (1904). Moved to Paris against th...

Alexandre Orloff

Painter, graphic artist. Born in Radom in Poland or in St Petersburg in the family of Konstantin Orlov (1889). Grew up in Voronezh. Moved to Prague (1924). Studied under Sergei Mako at the Ukrainian ...

Grégoire Michonze

Painter. Born as Gregory Mishonznik in Chi?in?u (1902). Studied at Chi?in?u Academy of Arts (1919–20), Bucharest Academy of Arts (1921) and the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris (1922). Introdu...

Oscar Miestchaninoff

Sculptor. Born in Vitebsk in the family of Samuel Meschaninov (1886). Studied in Vitebsk, Odessa School of Art (1905–06) and École des Arts décoratifs, École nationale des beaux-arts and Joseph Berna...

Jacques Lipchitz

Sculptor. Born as Chaïm-Jacob Lipchitz in Druskeniki in Grodno (Hrodna) Province (1891). Attended commercial college in Belostok (1902–06) and grammar school in Vilna (from 1906). Studied sculpture a...

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

Painter, designer. Born in Gradizhsk in Poltava Province or Odessa (1885). Studied in St Petersburg and under Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte in Karlsruhe (1903–04). Settled in Paris (1905), where she studied ...

Robert Genin

Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in Vysokoe in Mohilev Province in the family of Lev Genin (1884). Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1898–1902), Anton Ažbè’s school in Munich (from 1902) and...

Lazar Volovick

Painter, theatrical designer. Born in Kremenchug (1902). Studied at the Kharkiv School of Art and the Kiev Academy of Arts. Emigrated to Paris (1921). Attended classes at the Académie de la Grande-Ch...

Dmitry Bouchène

Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, theatrical designer. Born in Saint-Tropez in France in the family of Dmitry Bouchène (1893). Graduated from Grammar School No. 2 in St Petersburg (1912). Move...

Léopold-Bernhard Bernstamm

Sculptor. Born in Riga in the family of Adolf Bernstamm (1859). Studied at David Jensen’s studio in St Petersburg (from 1872), Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (until 1877) and the Imperial ...

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