Yakov Chernikhov

Yakov Chernikhov

1889 - 1951

Between 29th April and 3rd September 2023, the Kroller-Muller Museum is hosting the exhibition, ‘Futurism and Europe’. The exhibition combines work by Western Europeans such as Balla, Boccioni, Schlemmer and Picasso with work by their Eastern European contemporaries, among them Ukrainian-born, Yakov Chernikhov.

Yakov Chernikhov was born in Pavlograd, downriver from the now infamous city of Dnipro in 1889. One of eleven children, Chernikhov studied under Kiriak Kostandi (1852-1921) and Genadii Ladyzhensky (1853-1916) at the Odessa Arts Institute, the city to which the family had moved in 1902.