Leonid Lamm

Place: Moscow

Born: 1928

Death: 2017

Biography:

Leonid Lamm was a Russian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1928. He was an artist of Constructionist and Surreal styles. Lamm was born in Moscow of the Soviet Union and was educated at the Moscow Institute of Architecture between the years 1944 and 1947 and the Moscow Poligraphic Institute from 1947 to 1953. He was a leading non-conformist artist in the post-second world war Soviet Union and was forced to emigrate in 1982, having spent three years in a labour camp for his insubordination. Lamm's works are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), the Novosibirsk State Art Museum, the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, the Erarta Museum and Gallery of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Museum of Women and Children (Beijing, China), as well as in various private collections in Russia, Great Britain, USA, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Estonia and other countries.