Athanas Scheloumoff (Kamenez-Podolsk/Ukraine 1892 - 1983 Starnberg), 'Wolf Hunt in a Russian Winter Landscape', oil on canvas, signed lower right, 100 x 48.5 cm, framed, 112 x 62 cm. Limit 300,- >> Ukrainian horse and battle painter, 1908-12 studied at the art school in Odessa, afterwards with the battle painter Smokisch at the St. Petersburg academy, cavalry officer in WW1, later fighting against the Russian revolution, resident in Germany since 1945, works in many museums, ill.: Bruckmanns Lexikon Münchner Kunst.

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