KOGAN, NINA OSIPOVNA (Russian, 1889-1942)

Painter and graphic artist, Nina Kogan studied painting at the College of St. Ekaterina’s Order, from 1911-1913.
Together with Vera Ermolayeva, she worked on creating the Town Museum in Petrograd.
In 1919 she received an assignment of the Art Department of NARCOMPROS (Commissariat of Education), moved to Vitebsk and taught at the School of Art. After Kazimir Malevich came to Vitebsk in 1919, Nina Kogan became one of the most passionate adherents of Suprematism.
She was a member of the Unovis (Affirmers of New Art) group. Together with Malevich and Ermolayeva, she was an active member of the creativity committee of Unovis.
She designed the world's first suprematist ballet.
From 1922-1923, on assignment of the Art Department of the NARCOMPROS, Nina Kogan worked as consultant of Museum of Art Culture in Moscow. In 1930s she designed and illustrated children books.
Kogan participated in the following exhibitions:1938, Leningrad, Exhibition of Female Artists; 1940, Moscow, Exhibition of the Work of Periphery Artists; 1941, Leningrad, 7-th Exhibition of Leningrad Artist’s Work.