Russian artist and theatre designer
∼Serge Sudeikin (1882–1946) was a painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator.
He was born in St Petersburg in the family of a police superintendent, Yury Sudeikin. He studied under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, Leonid Pasternak and Apollinary Vasnetsov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1902, 1903–09); he was suspended for a year for showing “obscene works” at a student exhibition.
He also studied under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov (1903–09) and under Dmitry Kardovsky at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1909–10). He collaborated with Nikolai Sapunov on the sets for Savva Mamontov’s opera company at the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow (1902–03).
He illustrated the works of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912, 1915). He collaborated with the Libra (1904–09), Apollo (1910), Satyricon and New Satyricon magazines. He collaborated with the Theatre Studio on Povarskaya, Halt of Comedians, New Theatre of Drama and the Chamber Theatre in Moscow and the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Maly Opera Theatre and the House of Interludes in St Petersburg (1900s–10s).
He had an affair with homosexual poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1906) and married the actress Olga Glebova (1907). He took up again with Mikhail Kuzmin (1910) and had an affair with Konstantin Somov (1911).
He joined the World of Art (1911). He lived in a ménage à trois with Olga Glebova and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912). He created sets after designs by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich for Sergei Diaghilev’s Saisons Russes in Paris (1912–13).
He eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset (1913), whom he subsequently married (1918), but who left him to become the mistress (1921) and second wife (1940) of Igor Stravinsky. He helped to found and decorate such cabaret bars in Petrograd as the Stray Dog (1911–15) and Halt of Comedians (1916–17). He moved to the Crimea (1917) and Tiflis (1919), where he decorated the Qimerioni cabaret bar with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze.
He lived in Paris (1920–22) and New York (1922–46). He designed sets for Nikita Balieff’s Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris and Anna Pavlova’s Russian Ballet Company (1922–24), Metropolitan Opera in New York (1924–31) and Covent Garden in London (1939–40).
He worked at Hollywood on We Live Again (1934), Samuel Goldwyn’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899). He died in New York.
∼Serge Sudeikin (1882–1946) was a painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator.
He was born in St Petersburg in the family of a police superintendent, Yury Sudeikin. He studied under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, Leonid Pasternak and Apollinary Vasnetsov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1902, 1903–09); he was suspended for a year for showing “obscene works” at a student exhibition.
He also studied under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov (1903–09) and under Dmitry Kardovsky at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1909–10). He collaborated with Nikolai Sapunov on the sets for Savva Mamontov’s opera company at the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow (1902–03).
He illustrated the works of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912, 1915). He collaborated with the Libra (1904–09), Apollo (1910), Satyricon and New Satyricon magazines. He collaborated with the Theatre Studio on Povarskaya, Halt of Comedians, New Theatre of Drama and the Chamber Theatre in Moscow and the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Maly Opera Theatre and the House of Interludes in St Petersburg (1900s–10s).
He had an affair with homosexual poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1906) and married the actress Olga Glebova (1907). He took up again with Mikhail Kuzmin (1910) and had an affair with Konstantin Somov (1911).
He joined the World of Art (1911). He lived in a ménage à trois with Olga Glebova and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912). He created sets after designs by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich for Sergei Diaghilev’s Saisons Russes in Paris (1912–13).
He eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset (1913), whom he subsequently married (1918), but who left him to become the mistress (1921) and second wife (1940) of Igor Stravinsky. He helped to found and decorate such cabaret bars in Petrograd as the Stray Dog (1911–15) and Halt of Comedians (1916–17). He moved to the Crimea (1917) and Tiflis (1919), where he decorated the Qimerioni cabaret bar with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze.
He lived in Paris (1920–22) and New York (1922–46). He designed sets for Nikita Balieff’s Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris and Anna Pavlova’s Russian Ballet Company (1922–24), Metropolitan Opera in New York (1924–31) and Covent Garden in London (1939–40).
He worked at Hollywood on We Live Again (1934), Samuel Goldwyn’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899). He died in New York.
Russian artist and theatre designer
∼Serge Sudeikin (1882–1946) was a painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator.
He was born in St Petersburg in the family of a police superintendent, Yury Sudeikin. He studied under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, Leonid Pasternak and Apollinary Vasnetsov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1902, 1903–09); he was suspended for a year for showing “obscene works” at a student exhibition.
He also studied under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov (1903–09) and under Dmitry Kardovsky at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1909–10). He collaborated with Nikolai Sapunov on the sets for Savva Mamontov’s opera company at the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow (1902–03).
He illustrated the works of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912, 1915). He collaborated with the Libra (1904–09), Apollo (1910), Satyricon and New Satyricon magazines. He collaborated with the Theatre Studio on Povarskaya, Halt of Comedians, New Theatre of Drama and the Chamber Theatre in Moscow and the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Maly Opera Theatre and the House of Interludes in St Petersburg (1900s–10s).
He had an affair with homosexual poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1906) and married the actress Olga Glebova (1907). He took up again with Mikhail Kuzmin (1910) and had an affair with Konstantin Somov (1911).
He joined the World of Art (1911). He lived in a ménage à trois with Olga Glebova and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912). He created sets after designs by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich for Sergei Diaghilev’s Saisons Russes in Paris (1912–13).
He eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset (1913), whom he subsequently married (1918), but who left him to become the mistress (1921) and second wife (1940) of Igor Stravinsky. He helped to found and decorate such cabaret bars in Petrograd as the Stray Dog (1911–15) and Halt of Comedians (1916–17). He moved to the Crimea (1917) and Tiflis (1919), where he decorated the Qimerioni cabaret bar with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze.
He lived in Paris (1920–22) and New York (1922–46). He designed sets for Nikita Balieff’s Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris and Anna Pavlova’s Russian Ballet Company (1922–24), Metropolitan Opera in New York (1924–31) and Covent Garden in London (1939–40).
He worked at Hollywood on We Live Again (1934), Samuel Goldwyn’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899). He died in New York.
∼Serge Sudeikin (1882–1946) was a painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, illustrator.
He was born in St Petersburg in the family of a police superintendent, Yury Sudeikin. He studied under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, Leonid Pasternak and Apollinary Vasnetsov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1902, 1903–09); he was suspended for a year for showing “obscene works” at a student exhibition.
He also studied under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov (1903–09) and under Dmitry Kardovsky at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1909–10). He collaborated with Nikolai Sapunov on the sets for Savva Mamontov’s opera company at the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow (1902–03).
He illustrated the works of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912, 1915). He collaborated with the Libra (1904–09), Apollo (1910), Satyricon and New Satyricon magazines. He collaborated with the Theatre Studio on Povarskaya, Halt of Comedians, New Theatre of Drama and the Chamber Theatre in Moscow and the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Maly Opera Theatre and the House of Interludes in St Petersburg (1900s–10s).
He had an affair with homosexual poet Mikhail Kuzmin (1906) and married the actress Olga Glebova (1907). He took up again with Mikhail Kuzmin (1910) and had an affair with Konstantin Somov (1911).
He joined the World of Art (1911). He lived in a ménage à trois with Olga Glebova and Mikhail Kuzmin (1912). He created sets after designs by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich for Sergei Diaghilev’s Saisons Russes in Paris (1912–13).
He eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset (1913), whom he subsequently married (1918), but who left him to become the mistress (1921) and second wife (1940) of Igor Stravinsky. He helped to found and decorate such cabaret bars in Petrograd as the Stray Dog (1911–15) and Halt of Comedians (1916–17). He moved to the Crimea (1917) and Tiflis (1919), where he decorated the Qimerioni cabaret bar with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze.
He lived in Paris (1920–22) and New York (1922–46). He designed sets for Nikita Balieff’s Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris and Anna Pavlova’s Russian Ballet Company (1922–24), Metropolitan Opera in New York (1924–31) and Covent Garden in London (1939–40).
He worked at Hollywood on We Live Again (1934), Samuel Goldwyn’s film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899). He died in New York.
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