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Harriet von Rathlef-Keilmann

Latvian painter, graphic artist, sculptress, illustrator, writer. Descended from Rabbi Abram Awerbuck of Courland, who took the surname of Keyleman in memory of his late wife Keyla (early 18th centur...

Yvan (Ivan) Chouklin

Sculptor, graphic artist, painter, teacher. Born in the family of an icon-painter called Andrian Shuklin in the village of Shuklinka in Kursk Province (1879). Studied under Sergei Volnukhin and Princ...

Nicolai Remisoff (Re-Mi)

Graphic artist, painter, caricaturist, illustrator, theatrical and film designer, writer. Elder brother of Anna Remizova (Miss). Born in the family of actor Vladimir Vasilyev (1847–1908, stage name R...

Vagrich Bakhchanian

Armenian poet, painter, graphic artist, collage artist, performance artist, writer of aphorisms and ditties. Born in the family of Hakob Bakhchanian in Kharkiv in the Ukraine (1938). Moved to Moscow ...

Naoum Aronson

Jewish sculptor. Born in the small town of Kraslavka in Vitebsk Province (now Kr?slava in south-east Latvia) in the family of Lvov Aronson (1872/73). Studied at the Ivan Trutnev School of Drawing in ...

Alexandre Arnstam

Graphic artist, painter, theatrical designer, cinema designer. Born in Moscow in the family of a textile manufacturer called Martyn Arnshtam (1880). Studied painting at Konstantin Juon’s studio, Acad...

Victor Barthe

Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, designer, writer on art. Born in the family of a vet called Sergei Bart in the village of Velichayevka (Velichayevskoe) in Stavropole Province (1887). Studied at...

Prince Alexander Shervashidze (Chachba)

Painter, theatrical designer, art critic. Born in Theodosia in Tauride Province (1867). Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1893–94) and Académie Fernand Cormon in P...

Jacques Chapchal

Painter. Born as Yakov Shapshal in the family of Fyodor Shapshal in St Petersburg (1880). Studied at studios in St Petersburg and Paris (1900s). Member of the Societe des Beaux-Artes Nationale, Salon...

Igor Tulipanov

Painter, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Vissarion Tyulpanov in Leningrad (1939). Studied at the Admiral Makarov College of Naval Engineering in Leningrad, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute,...

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