| Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman | |
| Birth Date: | 19 September 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Field: | Sculptor |
| Training: | Académie de La Palette |
Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman (Russian: Ни́на Ильи́нична Нисс-Го́льдман, 19 September 1892, Rostov-on-Don - 30 January 1990, Moscow) was a painter, sculptor and a teacher of Jewish origin that was one of the founding members of the Society of Artists 'The Four Arts' (1924-1931, Moscow). Nina was a member of the Society of Russian Sculptors (SRS) (1925-1932, Moscow), a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSSH) since its foundation (1932) and was the most senior member of the Artists' Union of the USSR.
Nina Ilyinichna Niss-Goldman was born on 19 September 1892 in Rostov-on-Don to a Jewish family of the doctor Ilya Gilelevich Ryndzyun.[1] [2] [3]
At the age of 14 she began her studies at the sculpture school in Kyiv, but in 1909 at the age of 16, she left for Paris and entered into the famous 'Académie Rousse'. There she met Alexander Archipenko, Oscar Meshchaninov, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Chaïm Soutine, Ossip Zadkine, Joseph Chaikov and others. With Amedeo Modigliani they would often meet to eat onion soup together in a nearby café. She was also heavily influenced by Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol.[4]
From 1920 Nina Niss-Goldman taught at VKhUTEMAS (later in 1926 re-organised into VKhUTEIN), where she received the title of proffessor. On the recommendation of Vladimir Favorsky in 1926, she left for a two-year scholarship trip to Italy, where she attended courses at the Roman Academy of Fine Arts.
From 1915 she began to participate in exhibitions in Moscow, the Union and abroad.
Her works can be found in numerous museums in Russia, including the collection of the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s in the Saint Petersburg Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. A bust of the poet Valery Bryusov (1924) who posed for her shortly before his death, is still commonly exhibited at exhibitions dedicated to 20th-century Russian art.
In addition to sculpture, Nina Niss-Goldman devoted herself passionately to painting. Critics greatly appreciate her still lives in oil on canvas, many of which can still be found in private collections in Russia, Italy and Germany. In 2020, the Tretyakov Gallery accepted a self-portrait of Nina Niss-Goldman (canvas, oil, 70x64 cm) as a gift from the Sovart Gallery.[5]
Nina Niss-Goldman died in Moscow and is buried in the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.
Niss-Goldman took many portraits of her contemporaries. In particular, she was posed by
The museums also contain portraits of
About a dozen sculptures and commemorative plaques have been installed in Moscow: to Leo Tolstoy, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergey Botkin, Alexander Ostuzhev, Nikolai Teleshov.
Alexandra Shatskikh
A.Burganov
T. Khvostenko:
А. Poverin:
Valentina Morderer
The total number of exhibitions in which Niss-Goldman took part include:
Father - Ilya Gilelevich Ryndzyun, a graduate of the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Sankt-Peterburg and a well known doctor in Russia at the end of the 19th century that specialised in water therapy. He founded one of the first hydropathic clinics in Russia in Rostov-on-Don.[6] Author of the textbook 'Basics of Hydrotherapy and Light Therapy'.
Mother - Matilda Borisovna Ryndzyun, née Raivich.
Husband - Alexander Goldman, mathematician.
Brother - Vladimir Ilyich Ryndzyun (1897-1953) - writer, publicist, journalist, known under the pseudonym A. Vetlugin; author of the works "Adventurers of the Civil War", "The Third Russia", was secretary and translator of Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin. In exile after the revolution.
Daughter - Niss Aleksandrovna Pekareva (née Goldman) (1913-1984), architect, author of numerous articles and monographs on the history and theory of architecture, including "I. A. Fomin" (1953), "New Kakhovka" (1958), "Moscow Metro" (1958), "Elektrostal" (1962), "State Kremlin Palace" (photo album, 1965-1978, numerous reprints), "M. V. Posokhin: Popular Architect of the USSR" (1985),[7] etc. Member of the Union of Architects of the USSR.
Son-in-law - Alexander Vasilyevich Pekarev (1905-1978) - architect, sculptor. Member of the USSR Union of Architects. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Chief sculptor of VDNKh.
Grandson - Denis Pekarev (1938), graduate of Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU). After graduation, he worked in the Arctic as a foreman at the construction of the Severonikel metallurgical plant (Monchegorsk). In 1973 he left the USSR. Since 1973 he has lived in Rome. He worked in the Vatican on Vatican Radio (1974-1977), the BBC World Service in London (1978-1981), Radio Liberty in Munich (1985-1995). He participated in film production, working with Warren Beatty, Pasquale Squitieri, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini.[8]
Niece - Galina Davydovna Tyagai (1922-2006) - orientalist, specialist in the history of Korea and the problems of the national liberation movement in Asian countries. Doctor of Historical Sciences.