Nina Nikolayevna Watolina

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Nina Nikolayevna Watolina ( Russian Нина Николаевна Ватолина ; born March 6 . Jul / 19th March  1915 greg. In Kolomna , Russian Empire ; † 12. August 2002 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Soviet poster artist.

Some of the most famous agitation posters of the German-Soviet war were created by Nina Watolina. In 1941, together with her then husband Nikolai Denisov , she created the very popular poster “Ne boltaj!” (“Don't talk!”). It is provided with lines from a poem by Samuil Marschak : "Be on your guard - // these days // even walls have ears, // it's not far from chatter // and rumor // to betrayal."

“We are waiting for victory” (Ждём с победой); Poster from 1945 on a Russian postage stamp from 2000

literature

  • David King : Russian Revolutionary Posters: Civil War and Bolshevik Period, Socialist Realism and Stalin Era . Mehring Verlag, Essen 2012, ISBN 3886340988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Placateur, painter, writer Nina Watolina in uz-kolomna No. 16 (745) of April 29, 2015; accessed on September 21, 2017 (Russian)
  2. ↑ bpb.de
personal data
SURNAME Watolina, Nina Nikolaevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ватолина, Нина Николаевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet poster artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomna , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2002
Place of death Moscow , Russia