Studied at the First Higher Art College – State Free Art Workshops, Vitebsk (1918–1922) under I. Kh. Tilberg, D. A. Yakerson, K. S. Malevich, V. M. Yermolaeva and N. O. Kogan; VKhUTEIN, Pg–L (1922–1925). Exhibited from 1919. Member of the UNOVIS (Champions of the New Art) group (1920–1922), the Gruppa zhivopisno-plastichskogo realizma (Group of Painterly Plasticity Realism, 1927–1934), the USSR Union of Soviet Artists (1932). Researcher at the Museum of Artistic Culture – GINKhUK (1923–1926), head of laboratory in the Formal and Theoretical Department, assistant to K. S. Malevich (from 1924); researcher at the State Institute of Art History (1927). Worked as an artist for the publishing houses Molodaia gvardiia (Young Guard), Detgiz and Uchpedgiz (1920s–1930s), for Vorobei (Sparrow), Chizh (Siskin) and Ezh (Hedgehog) magazines (1928–1934); Head of the Graphic Art Section of the Uchpedgiz publishing house (1931–1933). Participant in WWII. Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), State Hermitage, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Ivanovo, Krasnodar, Rostov and Vologda.

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