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1890-1968
Russian/Italian (Odessa, Ukraine; Genoa, Italy)
Nicouline was a renowned Russian-born Italian artist, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and illustrator born in the Ukraine in 1890. Born near Odessa, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in that city where he studied until 1914 with the Italian sculptors Luigi Jorini and Giuseppe Mormone and, in the following two years, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Petrograd. During the Russian Revolution he fought as an officer in the counter-revolutionary White Guard before fleeing to Constantinople and then to Italy in 1920, settling in Genoa accompanied by Countess Aida Bossalini who later became his wife. His works included the fine pictorial maps of Italy and its regions first published as Imago Italiae in 1941.
