Solomon Yudovin

He moved to St. Petersburg in 1910, to study at the School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts from 1910 to 1911 and with artists Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Moisey Bernstein from 1911 to 1913.

In 1920 he, together with M. Malkin, published the album Jewish Folk Ornament (Yidisher Folks-Ornament) featuring 26 of his linocut prints.

After moving to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1923, Yudovin worked as a curator at the Jewish Museum, created in materials of S. An-sky's expedition, until its closure in 1928.

[2] In the 1930s to 1940s his work became more narrative and detailed to conform to Socialist Realism, though still focused on Jewish subjects and folk imagery.

His art blended Russian avant-garde influence with a commitment to documenting and celebrating Jewish cultural traditions through his prints, drawings and book illustrations.

Members of the S. An-sky's ethnographic expedition, 1914. From left to right: Abraham Rechtman, Solomon Yudovin, S. An-sky , Sholem Aleichem and his wife Olga Rabinovitch, Moisei Ginsburg