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Painter, graphic artist, engraver, illustrator, teacher. Studied painting under Konstantin Korovin, Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Scherbinovsky at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1901–07) and Ab...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, designer, teacher. Born in the family of a railway worker in Kursk (1899). Studied under Alexander Lyubimov at the Kharkiv School of Art (1914–18), served with the ...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born to a family of peasant icon-painters in the village of Prislonikha (1893). Studied religion at Simbirsk Theological College (1903–08) and Simbirsk Religious...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, architect. Studied painting under Abram Arkhipov and Konstantin Korovin (1903–10) and architecture (1910–15) at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture ...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, theatrical designer, applied artist, illustrator, writer, teacher. Studied under Vasily Belyaev and Hugo Salemann at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1914–18) and unde...
Painter. Born in Moscow (1927) and showed an early interest in painting (mid-1940s). Studied under Mikhail Perutsky at Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–46), Vasily Surikov School of Art (1946) an...
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, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator. Studied at grammar school and Ivan Kopylov’s school of art in Irkutsk (1901–13). Attended a studio of art in Paris (1913). Returned to Russi...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, art theorist, writer, teacher. Born in Warsaw in the family of a university lecturer called Vasily Sterligov (1904). Grew up in Moscow, where he attended grammar...
Painter, graphic artist, designer, teacher. Son of Rudolf Ferdinandovich von Frentz. Studied under his father and under Vasily Savinsky and Nikolai Samokish at the Imperial Academy of Arts/State Free...