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Kalnyn Eduard Fridrikhovich

Kalnyn Eduard Fridrikhovich

Kalnyn Eduard Fridrikhovich

Biography of Kalnyn Eduard Fridrikhovich

The future master studied at the V. Olavs commercial school (1912-1917), during the First World War in Tomsk, at the same time attended an art studio, where he mastered the basics of painting (1914-1918). He continued his studies at the Latvian Academy of Arts in Riga with the outstanding landscape painter (student of A. Kuindzhi), who had a high professional culture V. Purvita (1922-1932). The young artist, together with the fishermen, went to sea, set nets and raised sails, trying to capture in his memory everything connected with the sea element.

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Zinoviev Nikolai Mikhailovich

Zinoviev Nikolai Mikhailovich

Zinoviev Nikolai Mikhailovich

Zinoviev Nikolai Mikhailovich – one of the founders of Soviet Palekh art, teacher of the Palekh Art School, People’s Artist of the USSR.

At the time of submission to the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Lecturer at the Palekh Art School, People’s Artist of the USSR.

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Shishko Sergey Fedorovich

Shishko Sergey Fedorovich

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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Sabsay Pinkhos Vladimirovich

Sculptor, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, Sabsay Pinkhos Vladimirovich

Sculptor, People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, Sabsay Pinkhos Vladimirovich

Sabsay Pinkhos Vladimirovich (1893-1980) Soviet, Azerbaijani sculptor, teacher. People’s Artist of the USSR (1973). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1942).

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Aminadav Moiseevich Kanevsky. Biography

Kanevsky Aminadav Moiseevich Soviet artist

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

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.

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

Gunther Reindorf

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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