Solomon Nikritin - Artist Info

About Solomon Nikritin

  • Biography

    Solomon Nikritin

    Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, writer on art, teacher. Born in the family of an entrepreneur called Boris Nikritin in the town of Chernihiv in the northern Ukraine (1898).

    Studied at the Kiev School of Art (1909–14)
    Alexandra Exter’s school of art (1917–20)
    State Free Art Studios/VKhUTEMAS in Moscow (1920–22)

    Founded the Electro-organism group.

    Memberships
    Method (1923)
    Society of Easel Artists (1926–30)
    Fine Art Brigade (1931)
    Association of New Architects

    Professional Accomplishments

    Chairman of the academic-artistic council of the Museum of Painterly Culture (1922)
    Taught at a studio of painting in Kiev (1917–20), technical coll...

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