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Armenian painter. Born in Kagyzman in Erivan Province as Levon Buniatian in the family of Mikhail Buniatian (1899). Studied at the studios of Adolf Milman and Ilya Mashkov in Moscow, Moscow School of...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, architect, woodcarver, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Ivan Feshin (c. 1850–1918) and Praskovia Chistova (1852–1920) in Kazan (1881...
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, applied artist, decorator, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in Brest-Litovsk in the family of military engineer Semyon Stelletsky (1875). Grew up on his...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Descended from Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (996–1002), whose great-grandson Prince William of Brunswick-Lüneburg arrived at the court of Pri...
Painter, sculptor, colour-music theorist, inventor, teacher. Born Shulim Wolf Leib Baranov to Jewish merchant David Baranov and his wife Rosalia in the Pale of Settlement (1888). Studied under Kyriak...
Painter. Son of Ilya Repin. Studied at the Princess Maria Tenisheva School of Art in St Petersburg (1894–99) and under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1899–1905). Mem...
Sculptress, graphic artist, engraver, theatrical designer. Cousin of Lyubov Popova. Studied at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry in Moscow (early 1900s) and at private schools in Paris (1906–1...
Sculptor, graphic artist, engraver. Studied at Kiev School of Art (1902–05) and the studio of Sergei Svyatoslavsky in Kiev (1906). Lived and studied in Moscow (1906–08). Moved to Paris (1908), where ...
Sculptor, ceramicist. Real name: Seraphim Golovastikov. Worked in a telegraph office and took part in amateur theatrical productions. Joined the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre (1881–91), where he adopted th...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, engraver, illustrator, decorative and applied artist, writer. Born Moishe Shagal to a poor Hassidic family in Vitebsk (1887). Worked as a photographer’s ...