Mikhail Mokh

Porcelain painter, book illustrator, restorer. Born in the town of Brest-Litovsk in the family of Nikolai Mokh (1911). Graduated from the Pavlovsk School of Art (1929). Worked under Nikolai Suetin at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (1930s) and as a restorer at the Hermitage Museum (1941–48). Member of the Union of Artists. Illustrated books. Worked at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (1953–70), where he served as principal artist (1954–60). Died in Leningrad (1978). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1930). Contributed to the First Citywide Exhibition of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1930), Artists of the RSFSR Over Fifteen Years (1917–32) at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1932–33), Russian Artistic Porcelain at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1937), Jubilee Exhibition Dedicated to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Red Army at the House of Artists of Armenia in Yerevan (1943), Exhibition of Artistic Porcelain and Glass at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1948), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1955), Exhibition of Folk, Applied and Decorative Art of the RSFSR at the Vladimir Lenin Library in Moscow (1956–57), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958) and Fairytales in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000).