Born to prominent artists in the Soviet Union, Alexander received Russia’s finest state education at the art school and art academy of St. Petersburg from ages six to 24, which formed him as a realist painter.
Upon graduation Alexander moved to Berlin at the turn of the millennium, where he found himself questioning everything he had known about cultural, religious and societal norms, throwing out anything he found false, while retaining the truths and values that he uncovered or reaffirmed.
Self-aware and non-judgmental, with empathy for and insight into his fellow human beings, Alexander paints the way he lives: brutally honest—a concept more difficult than many would think.