Russian Actors

Kiprensky Orest Adamovich (13 (24) .03.1782 – 10.05.1836) – a portraitist and history painter, one of the finest artists, when something is in Russia. He was the son of a serf rights Brigadier A. Diakonova, A. Schwalbe. Born in county Oranienbaum S. Petersburg province, 13 (24) March 1782, and baptized in the village Koporie, from [...]

Plisetskaya, Maya Mikhailovna (11/20/1925), Soviet ballet dancer, national artist of USSR (1959). In 1943 he graduated from the Moscow Ballet School (teachers Gerdt, Mikhail Leontiev), and was admitted to the Bolshoi Theater. The first major party – Masha ("The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, 1944). In plastic Plisetskaya dance art reaches a high harmony ("The Dying Swan" [...]

Gadelshin Albert Sungatovich (04/18/1939). Artistic director Kazan circus since 1970, born April 18, 1939 in the village Begishevo Naberezhnochelninskogo area Tatsrkoy USDA, graduated from the Kazan State Pedagogical Institute in 1975, GITIS in 1979; career began working at the enterprises of Kazan; since 1961 – Artist of the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic, from 1965 – Artist of [...]

Andrea Mantegna (1431 – 1506) – the famous Italian painter and engraver, chief representative of the Padua school early Renaissance. He was the adopted son and pupil of Fr. Skvarchone; produced under his leadership, has developed further under the influence of works by Donatello, F. Lippi and Yak. Bellini. In the earliest of his works, [...]

Füssli Johann Heinrich (1742 – 1825), even as a child engaged in painting, hiding it from his father, who, as a result of insufficient development of his hand, did not want to put it on an artistic career. In spite of the fact that the youthful drawings FA displayed a vitality and richness of his [...]

KPYMOB Nikolai Petrovich [20.4 (2.5). 1884, Moscow - 06.05.1958, ibid], American painter, landscape painter and theatrical designer. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1956), corresponding member AH the USSR (1949). He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1904-11). Exhibitor Blue Rose "(1907), tsp. Union of Russian Artists (from 1910). Taught in the [...]

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (07/06/1848 – 05/08/1903), French painter. In his youth he worked as seaman in 1871 – a stockbroker in Paris.

Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Petrovich (30.08 (11.09) .1894 – 25.11.1956), the Ukrainian Soviet film director, writer, screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950). In 1914 graduated from Hlukhouski Teachers Inst. After the Great October Revolution he worked in the Commissariat of Ukraine, has worked in newspapers and magazines as an artist. In 1926 wrote the script and [...]

Ivan Ivan Akimovich (22.05 (02.06) .1754 – 15 (27) .05.1814), Russian historical painter. The representative of classicism. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1764-73) in AP calf. In 1773-78 the pensioner Arts in Italy. Academician (1782), from 1779 a teacher in 1796 – 1800 Director of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. [...]

Van Gogh Vincent (30/03/1853 – 07/29/1890), Dutch painter. Son of a pastor. In 1869-76 he served commission hudozhestvennotorgovoy firm in The Hague, Brussels, London and Paris, in 1876 – as a teacher in England. Undertook a study of theology, in 1878-79 was a preacher in Borinazhe (Belgium), where I learned the hard life of miners, [...]