| Thanks to Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo (French Michel Andreenko also known as Mikhail Andriyenko-Nechitailo among other variations), a renowned Ukrainian Modernist and French (Paris) painter and stage designer, a writer (short novels).One of the founders of Ukrainian avant-garde art. Andriienko-Nechytailo, Mykhailo [Andrijenko-Nečytajlo, Myxajlo, Андрієнко-Нечитайло Михайло (known in France as Michel Andreenko), was born on 29 December 1894 in Kherson, Ukraine,then Russian Empire, in the noble family of origin cossaks from sergeant-majors, died on 12 November 1982 in Paris. He graduated from men gymnasium in Kherson and moved to Odessa. 1912--17 Andriienko-Nechytailo studied with N. Rerikh, A. Rylov, and I. Bilibin at the art school of the Society for the Promotion of the Arts in Saint Petersburg and there he also studied Law in the University (1912-1917). In 1914--16 he exhibited the composition Black Dome and his first cubist works in Saint Petersburg. In 1914 he participated in an international graphics exhibition in Leipzig. In 1917--24 he devoted most of his time to designing stage sets for various theaters—in Saint Petersburg, Odesa, Prague, Paris, and for the Royal Opera in Bucharest. In Paris, where he lived from 1923, he also worked on sets for the films Casanova and Sheherazade and continued to paint in the cubist-constructivist style. In the 1930s Andriienko-Nechytailo produced a series of surrealist paintings. He switched to neorealism in the 1940s and ... |
