Solomon Nikritin
1898-1965

Nikritin graduated from the Kiev Art School in 1914, moving to Moscow shortly after where he studied under Leonid Pasternak. Whilst in Moscow he designed the scenery for a production of the ‘Green Ring’ at the Moscow Arts Theatre. Returning to Kiev, he designed the decorations for Revolutionary celebrations around the city and won the silver medal in the prize for a political poster in 1920. Evacuated from Kiev in 1920, the city was under threat of the Polish Army, he was sent to Kharkov where, in a stroke of good fortune, he met Anatoly Lunacharsky, Soviet Minister for the Enlightenment who suggested and indeed gave the recommendation to complete his education at VKhUTEMAS, the best school of its day and in 1920 Nikritin entered the studio of Vasily Kandinsky. >> Read more

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