Wassilij Nicolaevic Masjutin, 15 Märchenillustrationen

Wassilij Nicolaevic Masjutin, 15 Märchenillustrationen
Vassilij Nicolaevic Masjutin, 15 fairy tale illustrations
including illustrations to "Tsar Dadon" and "The Golden Cockerel" after Alexander Pushkin, hand-coloured woodcuts on laid paper, posthumous prints 1979 from the original woodblocks of 1923, each stamped "W. Masjutin", slight creasing, unframed, sheet dimensions each approx. 46 x 39 cm. Artist info: also Wassilij, Vasyl, Wassyl or Vasilij Nicolaevic, Nikolaevič or Mykolayovych Masjutin or Masyutyn, Russian: Василий Николаевич Масютин, Latvian-German painter, graphic artist, book artist, writer, sculptor and architect (1884 Černihiv [Чернігів] to 1955 Berlin-Wilmersdorf), childhood in Kiev and Moscow, 1894-1907 graduate of the St. Petersburg Cadet School and Military School. Petersburg, 1907 gave up military career, 1908-14 studied at the Moscow Academy with Sergei Wassiliwitsch Iwanow, 1914-17 war service as officer, afterwards teacher at the Wchutemas [engl.: Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops] in Moscow, as a result of the Russian Civil War emigration to Riga in 1920, emigration to Berlin in 1921, here mainly active as an illustrator of Russian authors - but also as a painter, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer, at times directed film projects in the 1920s, in 1939-43 he arranged exhibitions in the Verein Berliner Künstler, member of the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands, 1945-46 interned by the Soviet military administration in the Sachsenhausen special camp, in the late 1940s sculptural decoration of the Soviet embassy in Berlin, active in Berlin-Dahlem , source: AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Thieme-Becker, Dressler, files of the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste Berlin, Davidson and Wikipedia.