Nina Niss-Goldman

Nina Niss-Goldman

Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman ( Russian Нина Ильинична Нисс-Гольдман ., Scientific transliteration Nina Il'inična Niss-Goldman , born September 19 ^{. Jul} / 1. October  1892 ^greg. In Rostov-on-Don , † the 30th January 1990 in Moscow ) was a Russian sculptor.

Life

Nina Niss-Goldman came from the family of the physician Ilja Ryndsjun , a well-known specialist in hydropathy and light medicine , who ran a sanatorium in Rostov-on-Don. She was the youngest of three daughters. Her younger brother Wladimir is the later exiled writer and film producer A. Wetlugin and Voldemar Vetluguin . At the age of sixteen, Niss-Goldman went to Paris in 1909 to study sculpture, probably at the so-called Académie Russe founded by Marie Vassiljeff . It is conceivable that she also attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , where Antoine Bourdelle taught, whom she later referred to as her teacher.

After 1920 Niss-Goldman taught as a professor at the Moscow Art Institute Wchutemas (from 1927 until its closure Wchutein ). In 1924 she was one of the co-founders of the artists' association Vier Künste , Russian Tschetyre iskusstwa, which also included Vera Muchina , who was three years older than her , as well as Anna Ostroumowa-Lebedjewa , Martiros Sarjan , Kusma Petrow-Vodkin , Vladimir Faworsky , Alexei Shtusev and those who were particularly close to her Lev Bruni .

In 1926 Niss-Goldman went to Italy on a two-year scholarship.

During the Great Terror of the 1930s, her husband, the mathematician Alexander Goldman, was picked up by the secret police and never returned. Niss-Goldman did not remarry. Her daughter, the architectural historian Niss Alexandrowna Pekarjewa, b. 1913, died in 1984. In the last years of her life, Niss-Goldman was the oldest member of the Soviet Artists Association . She received none of the usual state honors .

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In Nina Niss-Goldman's studio in Moscow

Bust of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, plaster, 1960s

Niss-Goldman's early work has not survived. The oldest work in the possession of a museum is apparently her portrait of the poet Valeri Bryusov from 1924. Busts make up the greater part of her oeuvre, although like all Soviet artists at the beginning of the 1930s she turned away from the avant-garde under official pressure and became naturalistic Portraits created. Most of this work was commissioned by the state, including busts of Lenin and Stalin and a portrait of the chief of the secret police Menshinsky , which was highlighted as exemplary in the Soviet specialist literature of the 1970s. Her work also includes numerous portrait busts of writers and artists of her epoch, including one by Andrei Platonow , as well as small sculptures. At the beginning of the sixties Niss-Goldman created a bust of Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; after the latter fell out of favor again and was viewed as an enemy of the state, she received no further orders. In old age she was mainly occupied with oil painting; in the sixties and seventies a series of still lifes was created .

Novel and film adaptation

Niss-Goldman had her studio in the so-called artist town, a constructivist building complex from the 1930s on Obere Maslowka Street, in the immediate vicinity of the Dynamo stadium in Moscow. She lived there most of the time until her death. The novel Na Werchnjej Maslowke (An der Oberen Maslowka) by Dina Rubina is about the last months of her life, her memories going back to France and the relationship with her roommate, a young theater scholar, using fictional names. In 2004 the novel was made into a film, with Alissa Freindlich in the role of Niss-Goldman.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On Ryndsjun's sanatorium and the family's houses in Rostov-on-Don see the illustrated article "Pamjati Matil'dy Borisovny, eë muža i doma" on the rostovbereg.ru site. Retrieved February 4, 2017 . 
2. ↑ On the identity of A. Wetlugin and Voldemar Vetluguin with Wladimir Ryndsjun s. Irina Belobrovceva: "Lico ne v Fokuse.K probleme odnogo prototipa" (A blurred face. On the problem of a prototype, Russian). In: Toronto Slavic Quarterly No. 2, Fall 2002. Retrieved February 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ The page dedicated to Niss-Goldman on the site "Maslovka.org" contains a number of photos, including one that, according to the caption, shows her with fellow students at the Académie Russe. Retrieved February 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ RJ Abolina, BV Vejmarn ea: Sovetskoe izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo 1917-1941 , Iskusstvo, Moscow 1977, p. 118 u. Fig. 210.
5. ↑ Dina Rubina: Na Verchnoj Maslovke , Eksmo, Moscow 2014, ISBN 978-5-699-49156-8 .
6. ↑ Na Verkhney Maslovke on IMDb. Retrieved February 4, 2017 . 

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