Grigori Stepanovich Zozulya (russian: Григорий Степанович Зозуля; 1893–1973) was a Russian artist. He was born in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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, and studied at
Stroganov College from 1907 until 1918. From there he studied in the
Moscow
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studios of
Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders ...
from 1919 to 1922, and with
Dimitri Kardovski from 1925 to 1926. He was primarily active in Moscow, where he began exhibiting in 1916. In 1929, he became a member of
Bytie, and became most well known as a theater artist, while he also worked in
graphic arts
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interior design
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. He died in
Palanga
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,
Lithuania
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.
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1893 births
1973 deaths
Artists from Kyiv
Ukrainian emigrants to Russia
20th-century Russian painters
Russian male painters
Soviet painters
20th-century Russian male artists
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni
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