Background
Yuliy Ganf was born June 8, 1898 in Poltava, Ukraine.
Yuliy Ganf was born June 8, 1898 in Poltava, Ukraine.
He studied in the Art Shop of Eduard Steinberg in 1917–1920 and in VKhUTEMAS (The Higher Artistic and Technical Shops) in 1922–1924.
In 1920s, he produced political caricatures for Moscow-based magazines and newspapers: Krasny Perets, Bezbozhnik, Krokodil, Pravda, illustrated books published for Detgiz (The State Publishing House of Children"s Literature of the Ministry of Education of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). He was the author of many political slogans in 1930s. Yuliy Ganf died in Moscow.
The artworks of Ganf are exhibited in several museums of art throughout Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States : Tver Museum of Art, Yekaterinburg Museum of Art, Lugansk Museum of Art, Yerevan Armenia Art Gallery, the Russian State Library and other collections.