Nina Genke-Meller

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Suprematist Composition, 1915

Nina Henrichovna Genke [Hɛŋkə] or Nina Henrichovna Genke-Meller, or Nina Henrichovna Henke-Meller (

graphic artist and scenographer. [1]

Biography

Nina Genke was born in Moscow in 1893 to a Dutch father, Genrikh Genke, and a Russian mother, Nadezhda Tikhanova.[2] She married the artist Vadym Meller (1884-1962).

Nina Genke-Meller died in Kyiv in 1954.

Education

In 1912, she graduated from Levandovskaya Private Gymnasium in Kyiv. She received a title to teach Russian language and history. The following year she began teaching history, geography and drawing at the Higher Primary College for Women in

Verbovka or the Verbovka Village Folk Centre, founded by N. Davidova.[4]

Work

Nina Genke was closely connected with the

Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others to the creative peasant artisans co-operative.[6] 1915-1916 she participated in the creating settings for the play "Kamira Kifared" (I.F. Annenskiy) for Kamerny Theater in Moscow, was teaching drawing at Kruger's Private Gymnasium, was working jointly on a large panel with artist Katria Vasilieva, as a member of the Kyiv Folk Centre, was one of the heads of the Kyiv Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union: together with the group of artists-suprematists was creating a network of artistic and industrial studios aiming at support of folk art in Ternopil, Kolomiya, Chortkiv and Chernivtsi regions.[7]

Shortly after the

interior designer, a scenographer, and supervisor of decorative and applied arts institutions.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Ніна Генке-Меллер". Бібліотека українського мистецтва (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  2. ^ Avant-gadre Adventures.Vadym Meller. Nina Genke-Meller. Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Nina Henke - from Folk Suprematism to Avant-Gardism of Show and Plays, Serhiy Papeta. p.58. Exhibition Catalogue . National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU),22 October-28 November 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  3. ^ Avant-gadre Adventures.Vadym Meller. Nina Genke-Meller. Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Nina Henke - from Folk Suprematism to Avant-Gardism of Show an Plays, Serhiy Papeta. p.58. Exhibition Catalogue. National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU),22 October-28 November 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  4. ^ "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine 1910-1930 Contested Memory, p118.Myroslav Shkandrij, Academic Studies Press, 2019
  5. ^ Avant-gadre Adventures.Vadym Meller. Nina Genke-Meller. Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Nina Henke - from Folk Suprematism to Avant-Gardism of Show and Plays, Serhiy Papeta. p.66. Exhibition Catalogue. National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU),22 October-28 November 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  6. ^ Avant-garde Art in Ukraine 1910-1930 Contested Memory, p.126, Myroslav Shkandrij, Academic Studies Press, Boston,2019
  7. ^ :Catalogue, Exhibition "Avantgarde Adventures", p.66,National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), Kyiv, Ukraine, 2004
  8. ^ Avant-gadre Adventures.Vadym Meller. Nina Genke-Meller. Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Nina Henke - from Folk Suprematism to Avant-Gardism of Show a Plays, Serhiy Papeta. p.70. Exhibition Catalogue. National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU),22 October-28 November 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  9. ^ Avant-gadre Adventures.Vadym Meller. Nina Genke-Meller. Nina Vetrova-Robinson. Nina Henke - from Folk Suprematism to Avant-Gardism of Show a Plays, Serhiy Papeta. p.72. Exhibition Catalogue. National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), 22 October-28 November 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  10. ^ Breaking the Rules. The printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937.p.104. Edited by Stephen Bury, published by British Library on the occasion of the exhibition Breaking the Rules at the British Library. London. 2007.
  11. ^ "Ніна Генке-Меллер". Бібліотека українського мистецтва (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 April 2023.

Further reading

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  • Sergei Papeta, Nina Henke: From Folk Suprematism to Avant-gardism of Shows and Plays, pp. 48–66, Exhibition Catalogue, Avant-Garde Adventures, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2004.
  • Nina Genke: Avantgarde and Ukraine, p. 193, Exhibition Catalogue, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, 1993.
  • Nina Genke: Ukrainian Avant-garde of 1910-1930s, Zagreb, Croatia, 1991.
  • Nina Henke-Meller and Ukrainian Futurism , Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S., Pages 292-296, International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Multi-volumed work. Volume 5. International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Ed. by Berghaus, Günter, 2015.
  • Dmytro Horbachov, ed., Ukrainian Avant-garde Art 1910-1930s, "Mystetstvo," Kyiv, Ukraine, 1996.
  • John E. Bowlt, ed., Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, Exhibition Catalogue, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, and
    The Ukrainian Museum
    , New York, 2006-2007.
  • "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine 1910-1930 Contested Memory", Myroslav Shkandrij, Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2019.
  • Breaking the Rules. The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937, edited by Stephen Bury, published by British Library on the occasion of the exhibition at the British Library: Breaking the Rules, London, 2007.
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