Nina Kogan

Nina Kogan (c. 1887–1942) was a Russian painter known for her Suprematist works.

Life and career Nina Osipovna (Iosifovna) Kogan was born in 1887 or 1889 in Vitebsk, Saint Petersburg, or Moscow, and studied at the St. Ekaterina School in St. Petersburg in 1911–1913. She also took part designing new version of futuristic opera Victory over the Sun.

Her works are in collections of the Seattle Art Museum and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Australian poet Clive James wrote a poem about Kogan, titled "Nina Kogan's Geometrical Heaven": Two of her little pictures grace my walls: Suprematism in a special sense, With all the usual bits and pieces flying Through space, but carrying a pastel-tinged Delicacy to lighten the strict forms Of that hard school and blow them all sky-high, Splinters and stoppers from the bombing of An angel’s boudoir.

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