The period of his free-lance career began in the early 1980’s when he started designing themed walls for various events, making propaganda posters for schools and communal farms and creating template sculptures of Soviet politicians. For a short time, he also worked a set designer in a theater. They married in 1976, and the following year their first son Dmitry was born.Īfter graduation, Leonid Afremov got the position of a label designer at a local liquor plant. During his college years, Afremov was introduced to his future wife, Inessa Kagan. While studying in college, Leonid Afremov took part in numerous amatory exhibitions and even managed to sell some of his paintings. It was then that he discovered the world of Dali, Picasso, Modigliani and Chagall, the great artists that inspired and influenced his early work. Leonid graduated with honor from a local high school in 1973 and entered the arts and graphics department of Vitebsk Education Institute. Aside from attending all possible school classes, he also took private lessons from established local artists, including Barowski.
At school, Afremov showed himself as an intelligent and gifted student and developed great interest in history and art. Leonid Afremov was born in the family of a shoe designer and a metal plant engineer on July 12th, 1955, in Vitebsk, Belarus, and was raised in Jewish traditions despite antisemitistic governmental practices. Love lays in the beginning of each my creations.
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