Shishko Sergey Fedorovich

Born in 1888 in Odessa in the family of an engineer, inspector of the Odessa Technical Railway School Fyodor Dementievich Shishko.

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Kanevsky Aminadav Moiseevich Soviet artist

Aminadav Moiseevich Kanevsky (1898 – 1973)

Aminadav Moiseevich Kanevsky is a Soviet satirist, graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, People’s Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR, Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Studied with Nikolai Kupreyanov, Dmitry Moor, Pavel Pavlinov and Vladimir Favorsky.

The author of the famous image of Murzilka, illustrations for children’s books, including “The Golden Key” by A. N. Tolstoy, “Moidodyr” by K. I. Chukovsky, works by M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin, N.V. Gogol, V.V. Mayakovsky, as well as many cartoons and satirical posters.

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Evgeny Evgenievich Eney

Evgeny Evgenievich Eney (1890-1971) Soviet, Russian film designer. People’s Artist of the USSR (1969). Laureate of the Stalin Prize, second degree (1948).

One of the earliest creative collectives of Lenfilm. Artist E. Eney, director L. Trauberg, cameraman A. Moskvin, director G. Kozintsev. The year is 1928.

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Gunther Reindorf

Biography of Gunther Reindorf

People’s Artist of the USSR Gunther Reindorf (1889-1974) is known as an outstanding master of landscape drawing.

Reindorf was a versatile and enthusiastic man. In his youth he began collecting insects and later became a serious entomologist. Sometimes I didn’t touch a pencil for months. Something similar happened with artistic interests.

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Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Biography of Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Veniamin Borisovich Pinchuk (1908-1987) Soviet monumental sculptor, teacher.

Veniamin Pinchuk was born on November 17, 1908 in the village of Goroshki in the Russian Empire.

From 1928 to 1930 he studied at the Moscow VKhUTEIN with Mukhina Vera Ignatievna.

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Arefiev Anatoly Vasilievich For more than thirty years of creative life A.V. Arefiev has designed over 70 opera and ballet performances. Among them: “Carmen” by J. Bizet (1949), “Swan Lake” by P.I. Tchaikovsky (1949), “Prince Igor” by A.P. Borodin (1954), “Toktogul” by V.A. Vlasov, A. Maldybaeva, V.G. Feret (1958), “The Unknown Soldier” by K.M. Molchanov (1967).

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Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Theatrical artist.

Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Born on March 31 in St. Petersburg

1918 Moving with parents from Petrograd to Kiev.

1926 Graduated from the Kiev art-industrial vocational school.

1926 1930 Studied at the Kiev Art Institute under F.G. Krichevsky, V.N. Palmova, M.D. Bernstein, K. D. Fedorchenko, L.T. Chupyatova.

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