Arthur Nikitin

Arthur Nikitin was born in 1936 in St.-Petersburg. In 1962 he graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts. His field comprises painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and design. He is a member of the Artist Union of Latvia and a lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Arts, Design Department.

Arthur Nikitin is an analyst by nature. In his search for the hidden, internal and sacred he deforms and destroys conventional forms, shocks by his informality and delights with sophisticated taste. The artist excites one's imagination and irritates with ideas that cannot be interpreted unequivocally. Even time in his works seems indeterminate: it flows to eternity and suddenly is squeezed into a single moment. Like every artist, he strives for objectivity. And in his search for essence, he makes "magic mistakes", proving to us recurrently how important it is to an artist to omit the insignificant and emphasize the characteristic features by applying any method grotesque to idealizing the image to an "anti canon".

His works there are in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), The Pushkin's Museum (Moscow) and more other Museums of Ex-USSR and Latvia. More than 300 of his pictures had been sold in priv...

In 1953, Nikitin graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 13, from 1953 to 1957 he studied at the Riga Medical Institute but left it at the fourth year.

In 1957, according to the excellent results of entrance exams, he was immediately accepted to the second year of the Graphics Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts. At the end of the third year, he selected as a specialization the workshop of book graphics. The teachers of Arthur Nikitin were Valdis Dishlers (drawing), Uga Skulme (drawing), Leo Svemp (painting), Peteris Upitis (composition, woodcut). He graduated from the LAH in 1962 (thesis “Portrait of a Worker of the Novorossiysk Cement Plant”) as a graphic artist.

1958 Exhibition of young artists of the LSSR (Riga. Latvia).
1959 Republican exhibition of watercolors (Riga. Latvia).
1960 Exhibition of young artists of the LSSR (Riga. Latvia).
1962 5 Exhibition of young artists of the LSSR (Riga. Latvia).
1964 Personal exhibition. Institute of Civil Aviation. Riga. Latvia.
1965 Personal exhibition. Gallery of the Art Fund. Riga. Latvia.
1969 The Supreme Hall of the Editorial Office “K. P ”, Moscow. Russia
1977 Exhibition of portraits. Lielupe, Jurmala. Latvia
1978 Exhibition of still lifes. Planetarium, Riga. Latvia.
1979 House of Artists, Riga. Latvia.
1985 House of Artists, Riga. Latvia.
1987 Personal anniversary exhibition, Dzintari Exhibition Hall (Jurmala. Latvia).
1989 Personal exhibition. Bologna. Italy.
1990 International exhibition at the Frankfurt Fair (Frankfurt. Germany).
1992 Stockholm. Sweden. Personal exhibition of paintings and graphics
1993 Personal exhibition of paintings and graphics. Istanbul. Turkey.
1994
- Personal exhibition at the Petofi Museum. Asod. Hungary.
- Personal exhibition. Arnsberg. Germany.
- Personal exhibition at the exhibition hall of the Russian Culture Fund. Riga. Latvia.
1995
- Personal exhibition. Arnsberg. Germany. Personal exhibit...