Les Kurbas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Les Kurbas

ukrainian theatre director

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1887

Place of Birth: Sambir, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1937

Profession: actor, film director, theater director

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas (Ukrainian: ?????????-????? ?????????? ??????, 1887–1937), a Ukrainian movie and theater director, is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century.
He formed, together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors, the Soviet theater avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s.
He is one the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian avant-garde art.
He is considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance.