Nina Henrichovna Genke-Meller (née Genke; Russian: Нина Генриховна Генке-Меллер; Ukrainian: Ніна Генріхівна Генке-Меллер, romanized: Nina Henrikhivna Henke-Meller; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 – 25 July 1954) was a Ukrainian-Russian and Soviet artist, designer, graphic designer and scenographer. A member of the Russian avant-garde, Genke-Meller was a representative of the Suprematist and Futurist art movements.
Nina Henrichovna Genke-Meller (née Genke; Russian: Нина Генриховна Генке-Меллер; Ukrainian: Ніна Генріхівна Генке-Меллер, romanized: Nina Henrikhivna Henke-Meller; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 – 25 July 1954) was a Ukrainian-Russian and Soviet artist, designer, graphic designer and scenographer. A member of the Russian avant-garde, Genke-Meller was a representative of the Suprematist and Futurist art movements.
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Early life and education
Nina Henrichovna Genke was born on 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 in Moscow, Russian Empire (now Russia) to a Dutch father, August-Henry Henke, and a Russian mother, Nadiya Lvivna Tykhanova. Genke-Meller had one older half-brother, and was the younger sister of the illustrator Margarita Genke-Shifrina.
In 1912, Genke-Meller graduated from Levandovskaya Private Gymnasium in Kyiv, and later received a title to teach Russian language and history.
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Career In 1913, Genke-Meller began teaching history, geography and drawing at the Higher Primary College for Women in Skoptsi. In Skoptsi, she met the artist Yevgenia Pribylska who headed the Art Studio in a Folk Center and became more inspired to become an artist herself. In 1914, Genke-Meller began attending Aleksandra Ekster’s studio in Kyiv for her art education, becoming an assistant in Ekster's studio from 1915 to 1917. At the same time, Genke-Meller worked as an artist in Skoptsi (Skoptsy) Village Folk Centre, supervised by Yevgeniya Pribilskaya and in Verbovka or the Verbovka Village Folk Centre, founded by N. Davidova. Genke-Meller was closely connected with the Supremus group that was led by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of Suprematism. From 1915, Genke-Meller worked as a head and a chief artist of the Verbovka Village Folk Centre (province in Kyiv). 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. During 1915 to 1916 Genke-Meller participated in the creating settings for the play "Kamira Kifared" (I.F. Annenskiy) for Kamerny Theater in Moscow, was teaching drawing at Kruger's Private Gymnasium, was…
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Personal life
Genke-Meller married the artist Vadym Meller (1884-1962).
On 25 July 1954 Genke-Meller died in Kyiv aged 61.
