Lev Kaplan was born in Lugansk (Ukraine) on the 12th of May in 1967. He graduated from a childrens‘ art school and spent many years of his life in Kiev where he studied architecture. In 1992, he left Ukraine for Germany. Today, he lives in Stuttgart where he works as a Creative Director at an advertising agency. He dedicates his whole leisure time to free painting, graphics and illustrating childrens‘ books.