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Painter, graphic artist, engraver, applied artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a merchant called Fyodor Lapshin in St Petersburg (1891). Studied at the primary sc...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the village of Novo-Rakitino in Tambov Province (now Lipetsk Region) in the family of a peasant called Yakov Sitnikov (1915). Moved with his family...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, sculptor, illustrator. Born in the town of Melitopole in the Ukraine in the family of a Jewish cabinetmaker (Yiddish: tischler ) and his Georgian-Jewish ...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in Kherson (1932). Lived with his grandparents in Voronezh after his parents divorced (1935–39). Moved with his mother to Leningrad (1939–41). Evacu...
Swiss artist. Born in Zurich to Swiss silk manufacturer Friedrich Baumann and Danish artist Else Lilly Hansen (1942). Grew up at Kilchberg on Lake Zurich (1942–58). Studied at Manchester Regional Col...
Edited and contributed to posters designed by Dmitry Bulanov for the Railway Board and the State Publishing House of Fine Art in Leningrad.
Graphic artist, poster designer, illustrator. Great-grandson of the Decembrist Vasily Ivashev (1797–1841), grandson of the feminist Maria Trubnikova (1835–1897) and son of revolutionaries Anatoly Bul...
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, graphic artist, architect, teacher. Born Nikolai Zagrekov to Russian lawyer Alexander Zagrekov and his wife Maria Tokareva in Saratov (1897). Studied under Fyodor Korneyev at the Alexei Bogo...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Graduated from Berdyansk Municipal School (1896). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and Gennady Ladyzhensky at the Odessa School of Art (1896–1902...