Nikolai Terpsikhorov - Artist Info

About Nikolai Terpsikhorov

  • Biography

    Terpsikhorov was born in St. Petersburg in 1890. He studied at Konstantin F. Yuon's and Vasili N. Meshkov's studios in Moscow 1907-10; and at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Nikolai Kasatkin, Apollinari Vasnetsov, A.S. Stepanov and Konstantin Korovin 1911-17.

    From 1917 until 1921 or 1922 he did military service, following which he settled in Moscow. In 1921 Terpsikhorov began producing the Windows of RosTA large short-run posters put up in the windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency and at other sites in Moscow.

    In 1922 he joined AKhRR (the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia), the main grouping of Russian traditionalist painters, and soon established himself as a leadi...

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