Nina Genke-Meller
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Nina Genke-Meller, or Nina Henke-Meller, (1893 - 1954) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist, (Suprematist), designer, graphic artist and scenographer.
She was born in Moscow. Nina Genke's father Genrikh Genke was Dutch, and her mother Nadezhda Tikhanova was Russian.
In 1914 she began attending Aleksandra Ekster’s studio in Kiev for her art education. From 1915 to 1919 she was a student assistant in Ekster's studio. At the same time she worked as an artist in Skoptsi (Skoptsy) Village Folk Centre with supervisor Yevgeniya Pribilskaya and in the Verbovka Village Folk Centre, founded by N. Davidova.
She was closely connected with the Supremus group that was led by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of Suprematism.
After 1915, Nina Genke worked as a head and a chief artist of the Verbovka Village Folk Centre (province in Kiev). She attracted famous avant-garde artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Aleksandra Ekster, Ivan Kliun, Ivan Puni, Lyubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Ksenia Boguslavskaya and others to the creative peasant artisans Co-operative.
In the period after the October Revolution of 1917, she participated in decorating the streets of Kiev and Odessa for Revolution Festivities together with Aleksandra Ekster and Kliment Red'ko, involved herself in designing grandiose shows, as well as, a book graphic design.
She was a chief artist of the Golfstream futuristic publishing house led by poet-Futurist, Mykhail Semenko.
During the period 1920-1924 she taught art in the All-Ukrainian State Center Studio.
She also held a position of the Deputy Head of the Board on Fine Arts in Vserabis.
Later she worked as an interior designer, a scenographer, a supervisor of decorative and applied arts institutions, etc.
She was married to Vadym Meller.
Nina Genke-Meller died in Kiev.
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Links and References
- [Future Exhibition Ukrainian modernism, NY, Chikago, 2006, USA.]
- [Nina Genke-Meller, Avantgarde and Ukraine, p.193, Catalog, an Exhibition of the Villa Stuck Munich, 1993, Germany.]
- [Exhibition L'art en Ukraine, Toulouse, France, 1993.]
- [Exhibition Ukrainian Avant-garde of 1910s-1930s / Ukrajinska Avangarda 1910-1930. Zagreb, 1991, Croatia.]
- Nina Henke-From Folk Suprematism to Avant-gardism of Shows and Plays, Sergei Papeta, pp.48-66, Catalog, an Exhibition Avant-Garde Adventures, National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), 2004, Kiev, Ukraine.
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