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Boris Mandrovsky

Boris Nikolai Mandrovsky (1916 - 1976) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland / France, Mexico, Russian Federation.  Boris Mandrovsky is known for Abstract painting, teaching, writing.

Boris Nikolai Mandrovsky was born in Moscow in 1916 on the eve of the Revolution.  After making a last minute escape on a tramp steamer with his mother, he "squandered his early childhood amid the bazaars and minarets of Constantinople and the vineyard-covered hills of Yugoslavia."  His photographic memory and ability to absorb totally all languages he heard during this period were to place him in good stead.  

He came to the United States at seven, and grew up in Connecticut and later attended Trinity School in New York.  After receiving a B.S. degree in Biology, he spent five adventure-packed years in the Army, winding up in 1945 as an interpreter at the Quadripartite Conference in war-torn Berlin.

While on his honeymoon in Mexico in 1946, Mandrovsky was so struck by the look of Mexican landscapes at dawn that he bought a small box of watercolors and to paint.  In Taxco he encountered Carl Papper, a Hungarian painter, who persuaded him to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3318 characters.]  Artist bio

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