Lev Valdemarovich Nussberg (Russian: Лев Вальдемарович Нуссберг; born 1937) (also known as Nusberg) is a Russian painter, and founder of Russian kinetic art. Born in 1937 in Tashkent, Lev's father Waldemar reportedly was of German familial origin rumored of Nußberg gardeners, but the Von Nusbergs appear to at some point in history lost the aristocratic prefix "von". Waldemar, an architect, in 1938 was accused of "spying for a foreign power" and, following a quick Soviet era conviction, disappeared while incarcerated as a prisoner of a gulag in Urals. Lev's mother, born Raisa Bespalova, was a Russian singer. In the late 1940s, Nussberg moved to Leningrad. Nussberg graduated from the Moscow Art School 1905 (MSKhSh, 1951–58).