Victor Tsigal
Visual Artist
1916 – 2005
Who was Victor Tsigal?
Victor Efimovich Tsigal was a Russian painter.
Tsigal was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1916.
He became a noted painter and produced a large body of work in the socialist realist style.
Tsigal was commissioned to design the new Soviet Rouble bank note which was issued in 1961. He came up with a series of designs depicting scenes from Soviet daily life and Soviet industrial achievements.
Tsigal became an expert on the production and design of banknotes and travelled widely from the 1960s until the late 1980s giving the benefit of his expertise to Communist groups and organisations in a number of countries.
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- Born
- May 21, 1916
Kherson Governorate - Also known as
- Цигаль, Виктор Ефимович
- Died
- 2005
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on July 23, 2013
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