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Alexander Belykh

Russian Federation • 1940

Biography

Alexander Alexandrovich Belykh was born in 1940 in the village of Staraya Kurba, Zaigrayevsky district, Buryatia in southern Siberia, near Lake Baikal. His father was killed in 1944 during World War II. At the age of nine, Alexander went to live in the Irkutsk region where his stepfather was employed as a geologist.

The young boy grew up accompanying his parents on geological expeditions to remote areas of Siberia.

“I have spent my life in the forest picking mushrooms and berries. I saw bears, wild boars, eagles, wild goats, deer, elk, many animals… except the tiger. "

The tiger, repeated so often in his work, is the only animal he has never encountered other than in his dream life. He lived in Vladimir with his wife Nina and died of cancer in 2012.

Nationality

Russian

Themes

Art brut, Animal