Nina
Yakovlevna Simonovich-Efimova

Russia • 1877−1948

1877 Born in Saint-Petersburg.

1880-1890 Lessons of V. A. Serov in Domotkanovo.

1897-1899 Teaches at the guest house in Tiflis (Tbilisi). Studies drawing at the private school of M. O. Shmerling.

1899 Trip to Paris. Painting classes in the Studio Delecluse.

1900 Lessons in a private Studio E. N. Zvantseva arts at V. A. Serov. Studying at the Stroganov Central school of industrial art. 1901 Trip to Paris. Classes at Studio E. Carriera.

1904-1910 study at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture.

1910-1930-e is Engaged mainly in painting. A member of the Moscow Association of artists.

1918 the Organizer of the Shadow theatre.

1920 Together with her husband, sculptor I. S. Efimov, and created a mobile puppet theater, then the only.

Illustrated children's books, designed the exhibition in museums.

1948 Died in Moscow.

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He is the author of the books: "notes of Petrushenka", 1927; "memories of Valentin Alexandrovich Serov", 1943 (published after the death of the artist).

Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov gallery, the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; other museums of Russia.

Born in St. Petersburg, he studied in Paris at the colarossi studios and Delecluse, then at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. Since 1906 began to exhibit in the Moscow Association of artists.

In 1918, Nina Yakovlevna created the puppet theater and silhouette artists Efimov effect until 1940 and gave about 2000 plays on themes of folk fairy tales and works of Pushkin, Krylov, Andersen, Boccaccio, Shakespeare. In 1924 participated in the International exhibition in Venice, in 1926-1928 he participated in exhibitions of the society "Four arts" and "Makovets". Author of "notes of Petrushenka" (1925), "Dolls on sticks" (1940), "memories of V. A. Serov" (1964), etc.

Nina Yakovlevna Simonovich-Efimova and her husband, a famous sculptor Ivan Semenovich Efimov (1878-1958), during the great Patriotic war remained in Moscow, having refused evacuation. Each of them was over sixty years old.

They lived in winter, the Red door, the house 19 on Sadovaya-Spasskaya street, in the summer, Novogireevskaya St., close to Izmailovsky Park (in letters Izmailovo) in a house built before the war by artists Efimovym, Tabor, Kardesimi to live and work away from the hustle and bustle of the Moscow center. The house was a small garden, where during the war, the artists were engaged in gardening. Currently in the house organized memorial artists ' studios Efimov and Vladimir Favorsky.

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