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Lazarus Volovik was born in Kremenchug in 1902 and died in Paris in 1977
In 1917 he entered the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts. In 1920, together with his friend Kostya Tereshkovich they decided to go to Paris, which hid in the hold of cargo ship who went to Constantinople, because the money for the journey they had not. Having lived in Turkey, where he earned his living by making portraits on the street, one year, in 1921, he still got to Paris, where he studied at the Academy Grand Shomer. In 1936, held a solo exhibition in New York. During the Second World War, remained in Paris. Since 1946 he worked for the company "Russian Ballet", created by L. and J. Grzhebinymi (one of whom he was married, remember?). Completely abandoned painting because of ill health in 1974. (see the catalog of the exhibition of the Association of Russian Artists).

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Isaac Dobrinsky Makarov was born in 1891 and died in Paris in 1973, a child was in ishibote the Makarov, then moved to Kiev, where he attended the School of Fine Arts Zabatovskogo class sculpture parallel work in the cannery, to earn a livelihood.
In 1912, Dobrinsky arrived in Paris. He settled in the hive, where they have to Soutine was a general shop (he lived in the hive 27 years). Health problems forced him to abandon sculpture in favor of painting.
In 1914 he joined the Foreign Legion, but soon reformed for health reasons. Attended Academy Kolarossi.

Emmanuel Mane Katz was born in Kremenchug in 1894 and died in Haifa in 1962
His childhood was marked by the Jewish culture and traditions. His father, who worked in the synagogue, wanted him to become a rabbi. However, the very young Mane Katz left his hometown and went to Vilnius, where he enrolled in the School of Arts izobyurazitelnyh. Soon he returned home, but then enrolled in the School of Decorative Arts in Mirgorod, and in 1911 - in the Kiev School of Fine Arts, where he was introduced to European culture.
In 1913 he went to Paris and began to attend classes in the studio of Fernand Cormon. After the war he tried to enlist in the Foreign Legion, but he was not accepted because of his small stature and feebleness. The next few years he traveled through Europe, visiting museums, where he met with paintings by old masters, and especially interested in his Rembrandt. Returning to Paris in 1921, he discovered the art of his contemporaries, in particular, Andre Derain, whose influence has for Mane Katz fundamental. At this time he developed his own style based on traditional Judeo-Slavic subjects. His first exhibition was held in 1922 in the gallery of Persia.
In Haifa, the museum is closed on him.

Michael Kikoin was born in Gomel in 1892 and died in 1968 at Cannes.
Already in his early youth he was interested in painting. 1905, in Minsk, he met Soutine. In 1912 he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Vilnius, then decided to go to Paris (see story on Chaim Soutine), where he attended the Atelier Fernand Cormon. His friends were Soutine and Flint, Modigliani, who helped him find Marchand interested in their paintings. This painting, whose main subject is the image of women, combines elements of Expressionism and Fauvism, it can be seen the influence of Bonnard and Soutine in particular, but unlike Soutine, whose work is permeated with despair, art Kikoina more spokoytsno and zhinzeradostno.

Pinkhus Flint was born in 1890 in Zhaludke and died in 1981 at Ceret in the south-west France.
In 1909 he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Vilna class sculpture. There, he met Soutine and Kikoin. At 22, he decided to go to Paris, he had to leave Russia illegally, because he had no passport.
Arriving in Paris, Flint moved to Houllier and participated actively in the life of Montparnasse artists, along with Modigliani, Leger, Chagall, Derain, and especially Soutine, who became his close friend.
In 1914 he exhibited his sculptures at the Salon of Independent. At this time he became interested in Rayonism. During the First World War he spent in Paris. Gradually, the art dealers became interested in his works (George Sharon, /Paul Guillaume and Leopold Zyuborovski).
In 1920-ies. He has traveled extensively throughout France.
At the beginning of the war he had to take refuge in the Corrèze region, where he had spent all the war, working on the farm.
In 1945 he returned to Paris, but then bought an estate in Ceret and moved there.

Marevna (Mary Vorobyov-Stebelskaya) rodilast in Cheboksary in 1892, died in 1984 in London.
The daughter of a Polish aristocrat and actress Mary Vorobyov, future Marevna spent her childhood in Georgia, then, in 1910, she and her mother moved to Moscow, where she began to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, Ceramics. She was particularly attracted by the Italian primitives, impressionism and Fauvism.
In 1911 she went to Capri, where she met in Gorky, nicknamed her "Marevna", in 1912, she arrived in Paris and settled in the hive. She made friends with Russian emigrants, in particular, with Soutine, Zadkine, Ehrenburg. The café "Rotonda" She met with the artists of Montparnasse - Modigliani, Chagall, Kisling, Leger, Picasso, with whom she made portraits - a genre that attracted her most. At this time, it developed a style - a nervous rhythm, geometrizirovannye, like faceted shape, accentuated contours delimiting the color layers. In her paintings she joined Seurat pointillism to cubism.
In 1912-1914 gg. She exhibited a lot of (Independent Salon, Osennitsy salon), in 1915 she began a passionate affair with Diego Rivera, from which in 1919 her daughter was born. In 1921, he left her and returned to Mexico.
Marevna, supported by such collectors and the Marshal, as Zamaron and Zborowski, quite successfully marketed their work.
During the war she lived in a free zone in the south of France. After the war she moved to England (where she lived, her daughter, who married a Briton) and a lot of work.

Abram Minchin was born in Kiev in 1989 and died in Toulon (France) in 1931
In Kiev in 13 years, parents have given him an apprentice to a jeweler. The first painting of his work he has done in 16 years. In 1923 he left Russia, first in Berlin, where he had worked for the Jewish Theater, and then, in 1926, in Paris.

Zahar Fisherman was born in 1897 in Elizavetgrad and died in 1935 in Paris.
Born to a Hasidic family, Rybak left home quite young. He studied painting in his native city, and then enrolled at the Kiev Academy, where he studied from 1911 to 1916 after the October Revolution he made political posters for the Kiev commune. During this time he met El Lissitzky, and together they went on an expedition in Ukrainian villages to make sketches of Jewish cemeteries and copies of ancient synagogue murals (expedition was funded by the Society for Anthropology and History). Subsequently, these sketches served as sketches for a series of paintings Rybak.
In 1918 he moved to Moscow and taught there painting. In 1921 he went to Berlin, where together with the poet Leib Kvitko published a book of fairy tales for children in Yiddish, and an album of 30 lithographs entitled "Shtettl. In 1924 he released the album "Jewish types in Ukraine", stylistically in these studies combined with cubism expressionism.
In Berlin, he joined the association "November" and exhibited at the Secession. At the same time, he created a series of engravings Suprematist for avant-garde magazine in Yiddish "Albatross". In 1925 a fisherman returned to Russia at the invitation of the Moscow Jewish Theater.
In 1926 he left Russia and settled in Paris.

Lazar Segal was born in Vilna in 1891 and died in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 1957
Otuts Segal, Orthodox Jew, was calligraphy, the Torah scribe. In 1905-1906. He studied at the School of Fine art of Vilna. In 1907, Segal arrived in Berlin, where he attended classes at the School of Fine Arts for two years. In 1908, after traveling to Amsterdam, he moved to Dresden, where he continued his studies in painting. He was given the degree of Ph.D. students, which gave the right to individual shop. There he became acquainted with Otto Dix and Georg Gross, made friends with a group of Free Secession, then with a group of bridge.
In 1911 he went to Brazil for the first time in 1913, he organized his exhibition there. At the beginning of the war Segal as a citizen was deported to Russia Mayssen, but next year he received permission to return to Drkzden. In the same year he was the last time he returned to Vilna.
In 1918 he published his first album of lithographs for "Meek" Dostoyevsky. In 1919, he participated in the Secession of Dresden, Dresden Museum purchased one of his works. Then there was his album of lithographs published "Memories of Vilna. In 1920 he met Paul Klee, a little later - Vasily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Naum Gabo and Alexander Archipenko.
In 1923 he went to Brazil for the second time and remained there until 1928, when he moved to Paris.

Simon Segal was born in Bialystok in 1898 and died in Arcachon (France) in 1969
He came to /Paris in 1925 before the war he lived in Toulon, then in Normandy and Paris. Segal was a painter (landscapes, seascapes), a book illustrator and mosaicists. In particular, it is beautifully illustrated Bible (1967) and Apocalypse (1968).

Mark Sterling was born in Priluki in 1895 and died in Paris in 1976
He studied painting in Odessa, then in early 1920. in Moscow VHUTEMAS have Tatlin, which had affected his work this time, close to constructivism. In 1921-22. He lived in Berlin, where he had his first exhibition. In 1926 he settled in Paris. There he was actively involved in the artistic life of Montparnasse, was friends with Jacques Shapiro, Osip Ljubic, Lazarus Volovik, Michael Kikoin, Pinkhus Kremin ... In the first years of life in Paris, his work is stylistically adjacent to synthetic cubism. In 1930-ies. His creation has become more lyrical, he developed some onirichesko-realistic style. During the Second World War, friends sheltered Sterling and his family from the Gestapo. /After the war he lived alternately in Paris and in Switzerland, had worked until his death.

Alexander Fresnel (Isaac Frankel) was born in 1899 in Odessa, and died in Tel Aviv in 1981
He studied at the Odessa Academy of up to 1917 In 1920 he moved to Paris where he enrolled in the Paris Academy of Fine Arts "Grand Shomer. Friends with the Montparnasse artists. In 1945 he went to Israel.

Serge Fehr (Sergei Yastrebtsov, Rudnev another nickname) was born in 1881 in Moscow and died in Paris in 1958
In the early 1900's. He studied fine arts in Kiev. In 1905 he moved to Paris, where he lived with his cousin, Baroness Ettingen. He studied under William Bouguereau at the Academy Julian. In 1906 he exhibited at the Salon of French artists under the pseudonym Rudnev. In his works of this time felt the influence of Maurice Denis. Then he met Picasso and Apollinaire (who coined the nickname for him Fehr) and fell under the influence of Cubism. Together with his cousin, he published the avant-garde magazine "Paris Nights", edited by Apollinaire. Under the pseudonym Jean Seryus he published critical articles on art and was one of the first buyers of Customs Rousseau. In 1917 he created the illustrations, the scenery and costumes for the play by Apollinaire "Breast Tizeziya.

In the 1930's. he created cartoons for Beauvais tapestry workshops.

Vasily Hmelyuk was born in the village Berezivka in 1903 and died in Paris in 1986. Art obrazovanie received the Workshop of Plastic Arts in Prague in 1920 .. In the late 1920's. moved to Paris. He painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes. In 1936 and 1938 gave a personal exhibition in the gallery Puaye. In the 1940's. achieved fame. His personal exhibitions were successfully held in Paris. London, New York. Retrospective exhibitions were held in Munich, New York and Geneva.