Nikolay Tyrsa

Nikolay Andreyevich Tyrsa
Никола́й Андре́евич Ты́рса
Born9 May 1887
Died10 February 1942 (aged 55)
NationalityRussian

Nikolay Andreyevich Tyrsa (9 May 1887 – 10 February 1942) was a Russian painter. Nikolay Punin admired his work, in 1916 describing it as "organic, powerful and steady art; art, which we have been long waiting for, which we called for – the way to the art of the future."[1]

From 1905 to 1909, Tyrsa studied under Léon Bakst at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.[2]

During the siege of Leningrad Tyrsa became seriously ill and was evacuated to Vologda on 29 January 1942. He died there several days later.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Murray, Natalia (2018). Art for the workers: proletarian art and festive decorations of Petrograd, 1917-1920. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004355651.
  2. ^ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979.
  3. ^ "Soviet artist Nikolai Andreyevich Tyrsa 1887-1942". Soviet Art (in Russian). Soviet Art. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2021.