Boris Chaliapin Biography

Boris Chaliapin (Russian: ????? ????????? ????´???; September 22, 1904 – May 18, 1979) was an artist for Time magazine, for which he illustrated more than 400 covers.  Chaliapin was a cover artist at Time for some three decades. He belongs to a group of illustrators of during the golden age of Time covers

He was the third of six children; one sibling was The Name of the Rose film star Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.[2] He spent his childhood in Moscow. In 1919 he studied in Petrograd in the academic workshop of V.I. Shukhaev, in 1920–1923 - in Moscow in the 1st and 2nd GSHM with D.N. Kardovsky, A.E. Arkhipova and F.I. Zakharov, in 1923-1925 - at the sculptural faculty of the VHUTEMAS and in the workshop of S. T. Konenkov at Krasnaya Presnya. In 1923, Chaliapin spent about three months in Paris and then returned in the summer of 1925 to Paris and stayed. His father bought a workshop for him in Montmartre. He continued his studies at the F. Kolarossi Academy under S. Guerin, in the workshops of K. A. Korovin and P. K. Stepanov.

Boris Chaliapin. (2023, April 16). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Chaliapin