Georgiy Grigorievich Nissky - Artist Info

About Georgiy Grigorievich Nissky

Name variants

Georgii Georgievich Nisskii, Georgij Grigorevic Nisskij, Grigoriy Grigoryevich Nisskij, George Nyssa
  • Biography

    Soviet artist Georgy Nissky (January 8, 1903 – June 18, 1987) is considered the founder of the so-called severe style, the master of the industrial landscape. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1965), winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951), Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, he has art work in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and in most of the major museums of the former USSR.

    Georgy Nissky was born 8 January 1903 into the family of a doctor of the station, at a small station Novobelitsa (now Brest, Belarus). His first teacher was iconographer Vladimir Petrov. Local artist student Zorin introduced Georgy Nissky to the works of artists of “The World of Art” movement.

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