Nina Iosifovna (Osipovna) Kogan ( March 25 ( April 6 ) 1889 - 1942 , Leningrad , USSR ) - Russian and Soviet artist.
| Nina Kogan | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nina Iosifovna Kogan |
| Date of Birth | March 25 ( April 6 ) 1889 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | 1942 |
| Place of death | Leningrad , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Genre | painting |
| Style | Suprematism |
Biography
Nina Kogan was born in 1889 in Moscow . The artist’s father, Joseph Mikhailovich Kogan, was a baptized Jew, a real state adviser, and served as a military doctor. [1] .
In 1905 she graduated from the Catherine Institute of Noble Maidens in St. Petersburg .
In 1905-1908 studied at the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts under A. Eberling and A. A. Rylov .
In 1908-1911 studied with Ya. F. Tsionglinsky , where she met with V.V. Khlebnikova and L. Bruni .
From July 1, 1911 to March 16, 1913 she attended, as a volunteer, the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHVZ) [2] . I have not finished my studies.
In 1913 she returned to Petersburg; From 1913 to 1919 she worked as a drawing teacher in a gymnasium.
In 1915 she met with P.V. Miturich ; friendship with which she kept until the end of her life; consisted in correspondence with him.
In 1917 she was a member of the societies “Workshop of Y. F. Zionglinsky”, “Free Workshop”, worked with the Society for the Protection of Antiquities.
In 1918, Vera Ermolaeva was invited for several months to work in the department “Art in the Life of the City”, in the Museum of the City in Petrograd . With the help of N.I. Kogan and N.I. Lyubavina, Ermolaeva collected a unique collection of pictorial signs, preserving this rare view of the urban primitive. [3]
In March 1919, as appointed by the Fine Arts Department of the People's Commissariat for Education, she arrived in Vitebsk , where she taught propaedeutics at the People’s Art School (later the Vitebsk Art and Practice Institute). Along with Vera Ermolaeva and Kazimir Malevich, she was a member of the creator of UNOVIS . Director of Suprematist Ballet . The ballet was shown, the only time, in Vitebsk, on February 6, 1920, on the same day with the opera Victory over the Sun directed by V. Ermolaeva. Author of the article “On Suprematist Ballet” for the typewritten “Almanac of UNOVIS” No. 1.
In 1922, she married the artist Anatoly Alexandrovich Borisov (1897-1935) [4] .
Since August 1, 1922 [5] , during 1922-1923. was a consultant to the Museum of Picturesque Culture in Moscow; She was engaged in the exhibition plans of the museum, held lectures and reports, developed a system for hanging works. [five]
From 1926 to 1942 she lived and worked in Leningrad, at the address: st. Marat, d. 42, apt. 3. [6]
In 1926 she worked on the design of exhibitions in the Vyborg Palace of Culture and in the Museum of the Revolution.
In 1927, she took part in the preparation of an exhibition of the latest trends in the Russian Museum.
After Vitebsk, she was no longer engaged in suprematism; works of the late 1920s - early 1930s were created in a realistic manner. Of these, drawings and watercolors are known and preserved: a pencil portrait of L. Stepanova (wife of the literary critic N. Stepanov, who was involved in publishing the works of Khlebnikov; private collection), several pencil and ink portraits of A. Akhmatova (RGALI, Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, State Literary museum), pencil portrait of Ira Punina (1927, private collection), “The Head of the Hare” (1928, State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”), “Painter” (1927, the State Russian Museum) “The Boy at the Window” (1928, State Russian Museum), Portrait artist A. Borisov (until 1928, the State Russian Museum), Portrait of V. Ermolaeva (1934, the Russian Federation ; On the back - a portrait of an unknown person, presumably O.Bonch-Osmolovskaya) [7] .
Since 1928, she began work with V.V. Lebedev in Detgiz . [8] Illustrated children's books, mainly about the life of animals. [9] .
In the late 1920s met Anna Akhmatova , made several of her portrait drawings, including a silhouette portrait. [10] It is alleged that Akhmatova highly valued her portraits made by Kogan [11] .
In 1932 she joined the graphics section of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Artists (LOSSH) .
December 25, 1934 [12] was arrested in the case of a group of pictorial plastic realism, together with V. Sterligov , L. S. Galperin, M. B. Kazanskaya [13] and V. M. Ermolaeva. On March 13, 1935, the investigation against N. Kogan was discontinued. [14]
In the second half of the 1930s. taught at the children's art studio of the Narva district. In 1938 she took part in the Exhibition of works of women artists in Leningrad [15] and in the Exhibition of Leningrad artists in Kiev. [16] In 1940, she took part in the Sixth Exhibition of works by artists of Leningrad [17] , in the exhibition of artists from the periphery in Moscow. [18] . In April-June 1941 she participated in the Seventh Exhibition of works by artists of Leningrad. [nineteen]
After the outbreak of the war, she remained in the besieged city. Died of blood poisoning in a frostbitten hand in the besieged Leningrad in early 1942 [20] .
In the 1980s a large number of Suprematist works appeared on the art market, the author of which was N. Kogan. “Nina Kogan .. entered the history of art as the author of the only work -“ Suprematist Ballet “, staged in 1920 in Vitebsk. The lack of documentary information, the reputation of the student of Malevich and the intriguing lack of Suprematist works made her name an object .. scientific and artistic manipulation of speculation, there appeared .. attributed to her Suprematist paintings. " [21] .
Notes
- ↑ Goryacheva Tatyana Nina Kogan. The history of fate // In the circle of Malevich. Companions, students, followers in Russia of the 1920-1950s: [Exhibition catalog] / Comp. Irina Karasik; comp., preparation of catalog texts and documents, letters and comments on them Elena Basner, Irina Karasik, Tatyana Goryacheva, Antonina Marochkina, Tatyana Mikhienko, Alexandra Shatskikh. - [B. m.]: Palace Editions, 2000. - S. 65
- ↑ RGALI Moscow . Date of treatment May 1, 2013. Archived May 17, 2013.
- ↑ Vera Ermolaeva. Exhibition catalog. Compiled and written by A. Zainchkovskaya, I. Galeev. M .: Scorpio. 2009.P. 24
- ↑ Goryacheva Tatyana / Nina Kogan. The history of fate // In the circle of Malevich. Companions, students, followers in Russia of the 1920-1950s: [Exhibition catalog] / Comp. Irina Karasik; comp., preparation of catalog texts and documents, letters and comments on them Elena Basner, Irina Karasik, Tatyana Goryacheva, Antonina Marochkina, Tatyana Mikhienko, Alexandra Shatskikh. - [B. m.]: Palace Editions, 2000. - S. 70; Goryacheva Tatyana / Borisov Anatoly Aleksandrovich // Encyclopedia of the Russian avant-garde . Comp. Andrey Sarabyanov , Vasily Rakitin . - M., 2013. see also N.I. Kogan. "Portrait of the artist A. Borisov." Bd; State Russian Museum.
- ↑ 1 2 Great Utopia. Russian and Soviet avant-garde 1915-1932. Bern: Bentelli Publishing House, M.: Galart, 1993.S. 768.
- ↑ Catalog of the exhibition of women artists in the premises of the Thea Workers Club. Painting and graphics, sculpture, architecture. L., Club of Artists, type. Choice House of Culture, shooting gallery. 500, 1938. Kogan, N.O. [Leningrad], ul. Marat, 42, apt. 3.
- ↑ Goryacheva T.V. Kogan Nina Iosifovna // Encyclopedia of the Russian avant-garde. Comp. Andrey Sarabyanov , Vasily Rakitin. - M., 2013
- ↑ L. Chukovskaya . Notes on Akhmatova. In 3 vols. M.: Time, 2013; T. 2.P. 626-627
- ↑ W. Bianchi . Hide and seek. Fig. N. I. Kogan, M. 1931; Blaginina E. Magpie-white-sided. Rice N.I. Kogan. M.- L.: Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, 1937; Oleshka Golden Horns. Tales of the Northern Peoples / Processed by K. Shavrov. Under the total. ed. S. Marshak. Fig. N.I. Kogan. M. - L .: Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, 1936; also: Rabbits and pigeons. M, 1930; Aquarium. M. 1930; Birds M. 1930; In winter and summer. M. 1931. For the work of Kogan in a children's book, see Nikolaev G.V. / N.O. Kogan 1999-1942. // Pages of memory. Memorial reference book. Artists of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists who died during the Great Patriotic War and the blockade of Leningrad. St. Petersburg, 2010. P. 110-112
- ↑ Nina Iosifovna Kogan. No. 51. Portrait of A. Akhmatova. 1929. No 52, 53. Anna Akhmatova. (Silhouette). 1930s // O. Rubinchik (ed.). In a hundred mirrors. Anna Akhmatova in portraits of contemporaries / In a Hundred Mirrors. Anna Akhmatova as Portayed by Her Contemporaries. Moscow. MTN club. 2005. P.106 - 111.
- ↑ Anna Akhmatova: recent years. They say Victor Krivulin , Vladimir Muravyov, Thomas Wentslova . - SPb., 2001 .-- S. 84.
- ↑ Vera Ermolaeva. Exhibition catalog. Compiled and written by A. Zainchkovskaya, I. Galeev. M .: Scorpio. 2009.P. 62, 67
- ↑ A. N. Zainchkovskaya. / M. B. Kazan: Materials for a creative biography // Pages of the history of Russian art of the 16-21 centuries. SPb .: State Russian Museum, 2005. Issue. 11, p. 23-27.
- ↑ Vera Ermolaeva. Exhibition catalog. Compiled and written by A. Zainchkovskaya, I. Galeev. M .: Scorpio. 2009.P. 71.
- ↑ Catalog of the exhibition of women artists in the premises of the Thea Workers Club. Painting and graphics, sculpture, architecture. L., Club of Artists, type. Choice House of Culture, shooting gallery. 500, 1938. Kogan, N.O. <..> Herd (watercolor). No. 51. Landscape (oil)
- ↑ Catalog of the exhibition of Leningrad artists: watercolor, drawing, graphics. Kiev. LSSH. LTH. Ed. D.I. Mitrokhin. Leningrad city committee of graphics and books. 1938. C.9.
- ↑ VI exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Painting, sculpture, graphics. Catalog. L., LSSH; Tipo-laboratory, V.O., 5th line, d. 28; Circulation 250, 1940, p.15. Kogan N.O. No. 80. A girl and a sleeping child, fig. Number 81. A boy with a donkey.
- ↑ Nikolaev G.V. / N.O. Kogan 1999-1942. // Pages of memory. Memorial reference book. Artists of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists who died during the Great Patriotic War and the blockade of Leningrad. St. Petersburg, 2010.S. 112
- ↑ MASLOVKA - artists, paintings, biographies, photographs. Painting, drawing, sculpture. 20th century: 1941. Leningrad . Date of treatment May 1, 2013. Archived May 17, 2013.
- ↑ See the archives of N.I. Kogan, archive of the USSR Union of Artists. Nikolaeva G.V. / N.O. Kogan 1999-1942. // Pages of memory. Memorial reference book. Artists of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists who died during the Great Patriotic War and the blockade of Leningrad. St. Petersburg, 2010.S. 112; Goryacheva T.V. Kogan Nina Iosifovna // Encyclopedia of the Russian avant-garde. Comp. Andrey Sarabyanov , Vasily Rakitin. - M., 2013
- ↑ Goryacheva Tatyana. Nina Kogan. The history of fate // In the circle of Malevich. Companions, students, followers in Russia of the 1920-1950s: [Exhibition catalog] / Comp. Irina Karasik; comp., preparation of catalog texts and documents, letters and comments thereto, Elena Basner, Irina Karasik, Tatyana Goryacheva, Antonina Marochkina, Tatyana Mikhienko, Alexandra Shatskikh. - [B. m.]: Palace Editions, 2000. - S. 65
Literature
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