Remizov (Re-Mi) N.V. (1887-1975), artist

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REMIZOV (alias Re-Mi, real name Vasilyev) Nikolay Vladimirovich (1887, St. Petersburg 1975), graphic artist, painter, theatre artist. He studied in the Academy of Arts (1908-16) under Dmitry Kardovsky (1908-16). One of the leading artists of journals Satirikon (1908-13) and Novy Satirikon (1913-18). He created cartoons on political, social and everyday subjects and caricatures of literary and theatrical figures. His works combined a realistic view with a grotesque and comic exaggeration (they are collected in the album Theatre and all the rest, St. Petersburg, 1916). Remizov made a series of comic portraits in oil of the Chiefs of the City Glupov Administration (the State Russian Museum). In 1917, he took part in issuing antimonarchical popular posters through the Parus Publishing Company. In 1920-22 he lived in Paris and moved to the USA in 1922 where he produced sets for Russian and American companies ballet productions. (Mussorgsky's Sorochinskaya Yarmarka for the Metropoliten Opera, 1943). From 1933 he worked as designer in Hollywood.

Reference: Северюхин Д. Я., Лейкинд О. Л., Махров К. В. Художники русского зарубежья: Биогр. словарь. СПб., 1999.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich
Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich
Remizov (real name Vasiliev) Nikolay Vladimirovich
Северюхин Д. Я., Лейкинд О. Л., Махров К. В. Художники русского зарубежья: Биогр. слов. СПб., 1999 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Satirikon, journal
Russian Museum, State