Schaufler Hugo Wilhelmovich

Hugo Wilhelmovich Schaufler was born in 1928 in Marxstadt (today the city of Marx in the Saratov region), which was then in the Republic of the Volga Germans. In 1954 he graduated from the architectural department of the Faculty of Construction of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, is a member of the Union of Architects of Russia, a member of the Union of Artists of Crimea and Russia, a member of the Academy of Russian Germans of Crimea, Doctor of Architecture, laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers, the first laureate of the Academician Peter Pallas Prize – for his contribution to the development of German culture in Crimea.
Hugo Schaufler, an architect, graphic artist, painter, and teacher, has forty completed projects in the Urals, Western Siberia, and Crimea, more than a hundred scientific works in the field of architecture, and more than forty personal art exhibitions in Russia, Germany, Crimea, and Bulgaria. Behind the shoulders of this citizen of the world are epochs and countries: the bygone Republic of the Volga Germans and the Soviet Union, modern Germany and Russia, inspiring the artist and giving a permanent basis for creativity.