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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, 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, 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 ...
Painter. Studied drawing under Chaïm Krüger in Minsk (1909). Worked as a photographer’s assistant in Vilna, attended the Vilna Academy of Arts (1910–13), where he met Michel Kikoine and Pinchus Krémè...
Painter, graphic artist, applied artist. Born Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska, daughter of a Polish nobleman (Bronislaw Stebelskij) and actress (Maria Worobjewa). Studied at the Tiflis School of Fine Arts ...