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Painter, teacher. Born as Mane (Emmanuel) Kats in the family of Leizer Kats in Kremenchug in Poltava Province (1894). Studied at the Kiev Institute of Art (1911–13), École nationale superieure des be...
Painter, sculptor. Born in Zheludok in Lithuania (1890). Studied at Vilna School of Art (1909–12), where he met Chaïm Soutine and Michel Kikoïne. Lived in Paris (from 1912), working in sculpture. Beg...
Painter, lithographer. Born in Rozitten in Vitebsk Province (1892). Attended the school-studio of Y. M. Kruger in Minsk (1905), where he met Chaïm Soutine, and studied at Vilna School of Art (1909–12...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, applied artist. Born in Bender in Bessarabia in the family of Grigory Schreibman (1905). Lived in Paris (from 1924), where she studied medicine. Developed an int...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, poet. Literary pseudonyms: Chrysanth, M. Rossiyansky. Born in Rastyapino in Nizhny Novgorod Province in the family of Vasily Zak (1892). Stu...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist. Born in the family of Pavel Grimm (1898) in the Ukrainian city of Ekaterinoslav (renamed Dnepropetrovsk in 1926). Studied at the studio of Jan Ciagli?skj in S...
Painter, engraver, applied artist, book and theatrical designer, writer on art. Nephew of Leonid Pasternak. Born in Odessa in the family of Osip Goziason (1898). Studied law and art history at Novoro...
Painter, applied artist. Born in Smolensk in the family of Ivan Vasilyev (1884). Studied at a private school of art in St Petersburg (1902–05). Awarded a grant from Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna a...
Painter, theatrical designer, writer. Born in Kherson in the family of Fyodor Andreyenko-Nechitailo (1894). Studied at the Faculty of Law of St Petersburg University (1912–17) and under Arkady Rylov,...
Painter. Born in Sobolyovka in Kiev Province (1885). In service in Odessa (from 1896). Moved to Paris (c. 1905), where he studied under A. V. Bougros and G. M. Bochet at the Académie Rodolphe Julian ...