NEMENOVA Hertha M.

16 октября 1905 (Berlin) — 1986 (Leningrad)

painter, graphic

From the family of the scientist-рентгенолога М. И. Неменова. In his youth together with his family moved to Petrograd. He studied at the Petrograd (Leningrad) in VKhUTEMAS — Vhuteine (1922-1926) К. С. Петрова-Водкина, Н. И. Альтмана, В. В. Лебедева. Attended School П. Н. Филонова in VHUTEIN (the Collective of masters of analytical art).

in the Fall of 1929 through recommendations А. В. Луначарского close acquaintance with her father, aims to continue art education in Paris. Met А. Н. Бенуа, С. В. Чехониным, М. Ф. Ларионовым, Н. С. Гончаровой, П. Пикассо, А. Марке, Ф. Леже, А. Барбюсом. Five months attended the Academie Moderne Ф. Леже in Montparnasse (1930); received the diploma of the artist of the advertising business, worked briefly as an artist in the company Citroen. Participated in the salon d'automne and the salon Verhnesvirsky (1930).

About 1933 he returned to the USSR. Lived in Leningrad. She was married to artist В. И. Курдовым. Worked in the technique auction; worked in Experimental lithographic workshop under the guidance of LOSS Н. А. Тырсы (1937). Creating portraits, cityscapes, genre image.

was Engaged in book graphics. Created illustrations for books: "Manon Lescaut" by Abbe Prevost (1936; lithograph), "a True Paradise" Р. Олдингтона (1939; ink, pen).

At the beginning of the great Patriotic war was evacuated to Kazan. Together with Н. И. and А. А. Костровыми worked at the Bolshoi drama theatre; arrange for the staging of the play К. Гольдони "the Servant of two masters" (1941-1942), together with А. А. Осмеркиным he performed sketches of costumes for the play А. Н.Островского "Hot heart".

In 1944 he returned to Leningrad. In the second half of the 1940s-х — 1980-х performed in the technique of drawing and lithograph portraits of circus and theatre artists, famous people of creative professions (Д. Д. Шостакович, В. Д. Дудинцев, Д. А. Гранин), outstanding figures of Russian culture and world culture (Н. В. Гоголь, Ф. М. Достоевский, А. А. Блок, А. А. Ахматова, Б. Л. Пастернак, О. Уайльд, Ф. Кафка, М. Пруст, Ч. Чаплин, Ф. Леже, И. Монтан, С. Синьоре); has created a graphical "reportage" series (sketches of scenes, portraits of actors in role, the artists behind the scenes) to the face, cheeks, concert performances of the Moscow theatres (the Theatre, "Sovremennik" Theater of the Soviet Army) and foreign companies (national folk theatre, Paris; theatre of Budapest) on the orders of the Leningrad theatre of the Museum. He painted a series of works based on the novel by М. А. Булгакова "the Master and Margarita" (1972-1975).

in Parallel throughout life was engaged in painting; created still lifes, genre composition content, the portraits: "NEP" (the second half of 1920-х), "Ballerina" (1929), "the View from the window. Paris", "The Attic. Paris", "still life", "showcase", "Fish" (all — 1930), "Woman in winter coat", "Conductress", "Garden", "cottage Cheese" (all — 1930-е), "the House opposite" (1944), "Roses in a glass vase" (1948), "portrait of the artist В. В. Пакулина", "Girl-железнодорожница" (both — about 1950) and others.

Since 1923 — participant of exhibitions (exhibition of Petrograd artists of all directions in Petrograd). In the late 1920-х became friendly with the Association "Circle of artists", participated in 3-й the exhibition society in the halls of the Russian Museum (1929). Member LOSCH (XLP, the Leningrad Union of artists). Participated in the exhibitions: the portrait (1933), paintings by the Leningrad Regional House of artists (1933), autolithograph by Leningrad artists (1939), Leningrad artists (1941, 1945, 1947) in Leningrad; of works by Leningrad artists in Kiev (1938); "Young artists of the RSFSR" (1941), all-Union art exhibition (1946) in Moscow; "Leningrad graphics. 1941-1945" (1945 to 1946, traveling through the cities of the Ukrainian SSR); works of the Leningrad schedules in Riga, Tucuma, Liepaja (1946), Tallinn and Tartu (1946); "Leningrad book drawing" in Leningrad and Moscow (1947). Semenovoi his works were exhibited at international exhibitions: "Lithography 27 советских artists" in London (1961), "Modern Soviet art" in Munich (1965), "the Leningrad graphic workshop" in new-Йорке (1967), "Soviet graphics" in Stuttgart (1971). Held an exhibition of his theatrical sketches from the Leningrad House of cinema (1953).

Exhibits the works of the artist were held in St.-Петербурге (1993) and Moscow (2007).

Work is represented in several Museum collections, including the State Russian Museum, the Museum of modern art in new-Йорке and others.