Modern

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  • Mikhail Kupriyanov

    Graphic artist, painter, caricaturist, poster designer, illustrator, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Vasily Kupriyanov in the small town of Tetyushi on the River Volga between Simbirsk (re...

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  • Nikolai Alexeyev

    Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, designer, applied artist. Born in the family of Vasily Alexeyev in the town of Morshansk in the north of Tambov Province (1894). Studied painting under Fyodor Kr...

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  • Arthur Klettenberg

    Graphic artist, painter, poster designer. Born in the family of Peter Klettenberg in the city of Reval (now Tallinn) in Estonia (1907). Worked as an apprentice and a practical student in the agitprop...

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  • Naugaut

    Graphic artist, painter. Worked in the industrial art studios of the Decorative Institute in Petrograd/Leningrad (1922–25). Contributed to exhibitions, including The Avant-Garde: Before and After at ...

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  • Sofia Schulman

    Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Gustav Schulman in the small town of Kybartai in Russian Poland (1860). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Art...

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  • Lyubov Mileyeva-Lanskaya

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer. Born in the family of a doctor called Fyodor Mileyev in Ryazan (1894). Studied under Jan Ciagli?skj, Nicholas Roerich and Ivan Bilibin at the Sc...

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  • Alexandra Jacobson

    Draughtswoman, lithographer, painter, illustrator. Wife of graphic artist Minei Cooks (1902–1979). Born in Irkutsk in the family of an exiled cabinet-maker called Nikolai Jacobson and his wife Maria ...

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  • Victor Dumanian

    Armenian sculptor, musician. Born in the family of Khachatur Dumanian in Baku (1926). Studied the cello at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire in Baku (1945–46) and sculpture at the Panos Terlemezian School...

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  • Pyotr Stroyev

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of a rural clerk called Feona Stroyev in Penza (1898). Grew up in Tobolsk (first half of 1900s) and moved with his family to Irkutsk ...

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  • 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...

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