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Jewish painter, graphic artist, installation artist. Born in the family of Israel Lamm in Moscow (1928). Studied under Yakov Chernikhov at the Faculty of Architecture of the Moscow City Council Insti...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in Riga in the family of a German forester called Vladimir von Wiesen (30 December 1882). Studied under Konstantin Gorsky and Vasily Baksheyev at t...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born as the illegitimate son of Nikolai Musatov and a woman called Ivasheva in Moscow (19 April/2 May 1900). Studied physics and mathematics at Moscow University (19...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in the family of Vladimir Myslin in Moscow (1901). Studied under Konstantin Korovin and Mikhail Le Blanc at various schools of art (1918), VKhUTEMAS (1922–24),...
Artist. Born in the family of a peasant called Ivan in the village of Alexandrovka in Penza Province (1899). Orphaned at an early age and adopted by her father’s relatives from Grozny in the Caucasus...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Sergei Iznar in St Petersburg (1893). Studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing and ...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in the family of Alexander Borchmann in Moscow (23 July 1902). Graduated from grammar school and the Faculty of Pedagogy of Moscow University. Studied art unde...
Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Ivan Shitikov in the village of Bachaty in Perm Province (3 December 1919). Graduated from the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1938). Studied...
Artist. Born in Verkhneufimsk in the family of Fyodor Vasilyev (1902). Graduated from grammar school and school of music in Omsk (1919). Moved to Moscow (1923). Graduated from the VKhUTEIN (1930). Wo...
Sculptress. Born in Mariupole in the family of Semyon Ovoschnikov (1905). Lived in Kharkiv before her arrest. Graduated from an unknown school of art. Studied in Anna Golubkina’s studio (1920s). Arre...