Portrait of a Man

Dmitry Borisovitch Lion was a Russian-born graphic artist and a member of the postwar Soviet nonconformist art movement that rejected the restrictions of socialist realism. Lion, who was born in Kaluga, attended the School of Art in Moscow and later the Moscow Institute of Architecture. After completing his art education, Lion fought in the Red Army between 1943 and 1952, after which he was able to pursue his artistic career, beginning as a graphic artist and teacher in 1953. In 1964, Lion founded a private art academy and taught while continuing his own work. Lion is recognized for his large-scale triptych of Janusz Korczak as well as a number of abstract drawings. His works have been exhibited at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.