Erich and Sofya
creative union of two artists

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About the website

This web-site is dedicated to biographies and creative works of the painters. It is created by the family of the painters.

Gratitude and acknowledgements

The family of Erich Borchert is sincerely grateful to everyone who showed interest and engaged in the artist's work. We wish them health, well-being and good mood!

We are cordially thankful to the people listed below:

• Beate Koenig (geb. Borchert) and Egon Koenig, Erfurt, Germany
• Natalia Borisovna Paramonova and photographer Zinaida Shushkova for their help in the rehabilitation of Erich Borchert
• Max Kraevsky, a friend of Erich Borchert, a graduate of the Bauhaus, for helping the artist's family during a difficult time
• The wonderful Astrid Folpert, a historian and art critic from Berlin, who has done so much to reconstruct the fate of Borchert and his entourage, a tireless researcher of the Bauhaus in the USSR
• Historian Nina Grigorievna Shesternina and co-author of the Book of Memory of Kamensk-Uralsky • Historian Victor Krieger (Heidelberg)
• To architect-restorer Svetlana Igorevna Gavrilova (Kamensk-Uralsky-Ekaterinburg-Saint Petersburg)
• Irina Glazunova, Director of the Kamensk-Uralsky City Exhibition Hall
• The Russian branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Ural State Architecture and Arts Academy
• Galina Semenovna Kislykh, a leading researcher and curator of the collection of German graphics of the XV—XX centuries, and Irina Alexandrovna Antonova, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
• Margarita Chuvakhina and Joachim Kobuss for creating the first photo album of works by Erich Borchert
• Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi, Director of the Bauhaus Archive (Berlin)
• Dr. Mark Escherich (Bauhaus University, Weimar) • Photographer Alexander Dogaev (Aria)
• Ekaterina Borisovna Kuznetsova and her colleagues, the creators of the Karlag NKVD website
• Tamara and Yuri Zhelyaskov (Weimar, Germany)