What is Mai Dantsig?
{{infobox artist |birth_name = Mai Volfovich Dantsig |birth_date = {{birth date|1930|4|27}} |birth_place = [[Minsk]], Belarus |death_place = Minsk, Belarus |image = Mai Dantsig 2013 photo by Eugeny Kolchev 02.jpg |known_for = Painting, drawing |alma_mater = Minsk Art School |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|3|26|1930|4|27}} }} '''Mai Volfovich Dantsig''' ({{lang-be|Май Вольфавіч Данцыг}}; {{lang-ru|Май Вольфович Данциг}}; April 27, 1930 – March 26, 2017) was a [[Belarus]]ian artist. He was active during the [[USSR|Soviet era]] and independence of Belarus. He was thought to have been one of the founders of the contemporary Belarusian art. Dantsig was the author of many paintings and drawings related to [[World War II]] and [[Soviet partisans]] including the ''[[And the Saved World Remembers]]''. Dantsig died on March 26, 2017 in [[Minsk]] from [[heart failure]] caused by [[pneumonia]], at the age of 86.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.belta.by/culture/view/ushel-iz-zhizni-narodnyj-hudozhnik-belarusi-maj-dantsig-239390-2017/|title=Ушел из жизни народный художник Беларуси Май Данциг|date=March 26, 2017|work=Белорусское телеграфное агентство|access-date=2017-03-26|language=ru-RU}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.belarustoday.info/?pid=526 Biography] {{in lang|ru}} *[http://newsvm.com/cgi-bin/anons.cgi?date=2005/05/18 Interview with Mai Dantsig] in the newspaper ''Vecherny Minsk'' May 10, 2005 {{in lang|ru}} *[http://www.minsk2000.to/relax/artexpo/obzor/20000516092120.shtml 70 years of Dantsig] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20010304040826/http://www.minsk2000.to/relax/artexpo/obzor/20000516092120.shtml |date=2001-03-04 }} {{in lang|ru}} *[http://www.chagall.vitebsk.by/list/20.html Dantsig in ''Chagal museum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804033042/http://www.chagall.vitebsk.by/list/20.html |date=2007-08-04 }} {{in lang|ru}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dantsig, Mai}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Soviet artists]]