Mai Dantsig

Mai Volfovich Dantsig (; ; April 27, 1930 – March 26, 2017) was a Belarusian artist active during the Soviet era and independence of Belarus. He is considered to have been one of the founders of the contemporary Belarusian art.

Education and career

Dantzig was born in Minsk, Belarus. He graduated from the Minsk Arts College in 1952 and the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts in 1958. In Moscow he studied under Mikhail Kurilko and Victor Tsyplakov.

From 1958, he taught at the Belarusian Academy of Arts. From 2001 until his death in 2017, he was the chairman of the Department of Painting there. In 1995, he became a People's Artist of Belarus.