Leonid Soifertis - Artist Info

About Leonid Soifertis

Name variants

Leonid Sofeitis, Leonid Soyferis
  • Biography

    The corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic), Leonid Vladimirovich was since 1966 The People’s Artist of RSFSR (1982).

    A graphic artist, he studied in the Kharkov Institute of Fine Arts from 1928-1930, and at the department of artist training by the Moscow State Artistic Institute. The classes were by Aleksei Radakov, Piotr Ivanovich Lvov and S. Rodionov.

    Since 1934, he co-operated with magazines Smena, Ogoniok and Krokodil. The author of series The Sevastopol Album» (1941 – 1942), Sports» (1967 –1970), New Districts of Moscow (1970’s).

    A participant of numerous exhibitions, the artist's personal ...

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