Leonid Isaacovich FRECHKOP (Леонид Исаакович Фрешкоп) is a Russian painter born on November 6, 1897 in Moscow, died on November 10, 1982 in Brussels. Leonid was born in Malaya Dmitrovka in Moscow, his parents being Isaac Abramovich FRECHKOP (born in Simferopol in 1864) and his mother born Eugenia Akimovna KALMYKOVA (born in Novocherkassk in 1874). He is the younger brother of the Belgian cryptozoologist scientist Serge Isaacovich FRECHKOP. Student between 1916 and 1920 of the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Moscow and the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, with Constantin KOROVIN, Abram ARKHIPOV and Nikolai KASSATKIN as masters, Leonid FRECHKOP, he leaves U.S.S.S. by the port of Riga, and arrives in France in 1921, then moves to Belgium in 1922 to settle there definitively. He started as a painter-decorator and contributed to the realization in 1923, for the Royal Theater of Antwerp, sets of the operas "The Golden Cock" of Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV and "Eugene Onegin" of Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY. He became friends with the Argentinean theater designer, Jules PAYRO, who has a rich artistic and intellectual circle (we can find there the writer Paul-Aloïse DE BOCK and the surrealist painter Paul DELVAUX). In 1925, Leonid FRECHKOP marries Joséphine EDWARD, pianist, thanks to who he is the brother-in-law of the Belgian painter Marcel CANNEEL. In 1935, Leonid FRECHKOP spent a year in Argentina (very close to Argentine artistic and intellectual circles, a personal exhibition dedicated to him in 1936) and in Venezuela. We know from his work that his vacations in resorts in France lead him to Savoy, Provence or Corsica. In 1968, his trip to Turkey inspired him mainly a series of works on the theme of the Taurus Mountains.