Nissky Georgy Grigoryevich

Born in the village of Novobelitsa (now the Gomel region, Belarussia) on January 8 (21), 1903 in the physician family. Studied in the Gomel studio named after Mikhail Vrubel (1919-1921) and at the Moscow Higher Art and Technical Studios (1921-1930), in particular, at A.D.Drevin R.R.Falk's studios. Lived in Moscow.

Although by the time Nysskiy started his career, independent art groups era came to its end, he not only joined the circle of the Society of Easel Painters, but continued its style line in his later works (A. Deineka made especially great influence on him.) Already in his early landscapes, a kind of magical realism reigns conferring the technological world with a poetic aura. You can see it in the painting series "Autumn". "The Beepers" (1932, Tretyakov Gallery) and "On the Railroad" (1933, Museum of Fine Arts, Volgograd) represent spiritual railway attributes, like as in A.P.Platonov's prose. And later, his paintings with their wide, free angles and monumental rhythm, asserting modernity not as a set of ideological signs, but as a lyrical feeling, always soared above the intermediate level of the exhibition.

Among his characteristic works "The Rainbow" (1950, Museum of Art, Dnepropetrovsk), triptych "On the North" (1957, Tretyakov Gallery), "Moscow Suburb Belt Road" (1957, Picture Gallery, Lviv), "Above the snow" and "Zagorje Collective Farm" (both in 1959-1960, Russian Museum). In parallel with greater thing, he constantly painted small gouache works that are romantic on the verge of an utopian fantasy. He became one of the forerunners of the "severe style". His late period was marred by a serious illness.

Nysskiy died in Moscow on June 18, 1987