Boris Artzybasheff
Overview
United States
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illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal
Surrealism
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designs.
Artzybasheff was born in Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
, son of the author Mikhail Artsybashev
Mikhail Artsybashev
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ; was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism...
. He is said to have fought as a White Russian
White movement
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. During 1919 he arrived in New York City
New York City
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, where he worked in an engraving shop.
His earliest work appeared in 1922 as illustrations for Verotchka's Tales and The Undertaker's Garland.
