SOVIET ARTIST DANIIL CHERKES: FROM THE SOUTHERN SEAS TO THE POLAR REGION
Journal: THE LIFE OF THE EARTH
Year: 2022

The article explores the life of the Soviet artist Daniil Yakovlevich Cherkes (1899-1971). After graduating from the Vkhutemas (Higher Artisic and Technical Workshops) in 1923, he worked as a set painter and stage artist at the First Theater of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic under the direction of Vsevolod Meyerhold, taking part also in the creation of the first Soviet animated films, and working with graphic media. In the mid-1930s Cherkes started to improve his skills in ease