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Vladimir Andreyevich Favorsky (Russian: Владимир Андреевич Фаворский) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the 19th and 20th centuries. He entered the history of Russian and Soviet art as a painter, illustrator, muralist, art historian, and teacher.
Vladimir Favorsky revived the classical medieval technique of black stroke woodcuts, at the same time modernizing it. In doing so, Favorsky created a Russian and Soviet school of book illustration.
During the Soviet period, he created the sketches of the scenery for the performances of many theaters, including the Moscow Art Theater, the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtangov, the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Theater of Musical Comedy.
Favorsky taught at the Higher Art and Technical Studios, and from 1923 to 1925 was the rector of this network of educational institutions. Vladimir Favorsky's lectures were published in the form of collections under such titles as "The font, its types and connection of illustration with the font", "Organization of the wall with painting", "Tales of the artist-engraver", "About drawing, about composition" and others.
