Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

male, deceased (1936)
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist...
Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch

male, 49 years old
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose monumental paintings owe a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte. With echoes of socialist r...
Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Zhdanov

male, deceased (1948)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Mariupol', -August 31, 1948, Moscow) was a Soviet politician.
Alexander Gerasimov

Alexander Gerasimov

male, deceased (1963)
Alexander Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (August 12, 1881 - July 23, 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted...
Tadeusz Konwicki

Tadeusz Konwicki

male, 83 years old
Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926) is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council. Konwicki was born June 22, 1926 in Nowa...
Osip Brik

Osip Brik

male, deceased (1945)
Osip Maksimovich Brik, (January 16 1888-February 221945), Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, was one of the most important members of...
Boris Vladimirski

Boris Vladimirski

male, deceased (1950)
Boris Eremeevich Vladimirsky, (1878 - 1950), was a Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school. Vladimirski was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He began...
Mikhail Shemyakin

Mikhail Shemyakin

male, 66 years old
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Shemyakin painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art...
Pavel Kuznetsov

Pavel Kuznetsov

male, deceased (1968)
Pavel Varfolomevich Kusnetsov (1878-1968) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891-6), then...
Alexander Matveev

Alexander Matveev

male, deceased (1960)
Alexander Matveev (1878-1960) was the leading Russian sculptor of his generation, working in a simple, vigorous, modern classical style similar to...