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Viktor Nikolaevich Denisov (russian: Виктор Николаевич Денисов; March 8, 1893 – August 3, 1946),
Биография Дени Виктора Николаевича
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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best known by the shortened pseudonym Viktor Deni, was a Russian and Soviet satirist
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and poster
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artist. Deni was one of the major agitprop
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poster artists of the Bolshevist period (1917–1921).
Biography
Born in Moscow in 1893, Denisov later shortened his surname to Deni. Deni moved to St. Petersburg
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in 1913 where he established himself as a successful caricaturist
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, his caricatures appearing in a number of illustrated satirical journals. After the October Revolution
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Deni worked for the Litizdat (the state publishing house), an agency founded in June 1919 to coordinate the various publishing centres on behalf of the Bolshevik
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s. He produced nearly 50 political posters during the Russian Civil War
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, including some of his most well known satirical work. He became one of the major agitprop poster artists of the Bolshevist period (1917–1921). Deni subsequently focused on producing newspaper cartoons that addressed foreign policy issues. During the German–Soviet War
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(World War II
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), he returned to the medium of the political poster together with several other prominent poster artists of the Civil War such as Mikhail Cheremnykh and Dmitry Moor
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See also
* List of Soviet poster artists
{{Unreferenced, date=October 2016
This is a list of Soviet poster artists.
Soviet poster artists
* Mikhail Baljasnij
* Mikhail Cheremnykh
* Nikolai Chomov
* Viktor Deni
* Nikolai Dolgorukov
* Boris Efimov
* Vladimir Galb
* Iulii Ganf
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References
Further reading
* I. A. Sviridova, ''Viktor Nikolaevich Deni''. Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1978.
* Stephen White, ''The Bolshevik Poster''. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.
External links
Biography at Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Russian male artists
1893 births
1946 deaths
Russian caricaturists
Russian cartoonists
Russian editorial cartoonists
Writers from Moscow
Russian satirists
Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Russian poster artists
People of the Russian Civil War
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