Nikolai Petrovich Garbar was born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Western Ukraine in 1930. Garbar graduated from the Kiev Institute in 1953 and Leningrad Art Academy 1963. During WW II Soviet military forces removed most of the European art collected from the Dresden, Germany Art Museum and others for “safekeeping.” In 1955 the Soviet government returned the valuable art work to the Dresden Museum. Shortly after, Garbar painted perhaps his most famous painting, “Art for All”. “Art for All” portrayed Soviet soldiers viewing the famous Italian paintings in liberated Germany. “Art for All” was well exhibited throughout Eastern Europe and is currently owned by Kiev Art Museum.