Victor Arnautoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor Arnautoff

American artist

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1896

Place of Birth: Tokmak Raion, Zaporizhzhya Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 22-Mar-1979

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (born Uspenivka, Taurida Governorate (Russian Empire), November 11, 1896 – died Leningrad, Soviet Union, March 22, 1979) was a Russian-American painter and professor of art.
He worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area from 1925 to 1963, including two decades as a teacher at Stanford University, and was particularly prolific as a muralist during the 1930s.
He became a naturalized U.S.
citizen, but returned to the Soviet Union after the death of his wife, continuing his career there before his death.