death_date death_place birth_place training field birth_date image article_title name
3 may 1985 near zolochiv , ukraine lviv , soviet union ukrainian institute of printing graphics art 2 october 1949 artist alexander aksinin 1980.jpg alexander aksinin
 alexander aksinin
alexander aksinin

alexander aksinin -lrb- -rrb- was a well-regarded russian-ukrainian printmaker and painter .
he was born in lviv , soviet union , on october 2 , 1949 , and died in a plane crash near lviv on may 3 , 1985 .
his sophisticated etching technique , precision and perfectionist attention to details earned him the sobriquet the `` dürer of lviv '' .
art critics hailed him as `` a 20th century piranesi '' for his dramatic and elaborate constructs .
