Sergey Chekhonin
Illustrator
Died when: 58 years 21 days (696 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (born in Valdayka, Novgorod province [now Lykoshino, Tver Oblast], 2 February 1878; died on the way from Germany to Paris, 23 February 1936) was a Russian graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator.
Together with Heorhiy Narbut and Dmitry Mitrokhin, Chekhonin belongs to the second generation of the World of Art, the so-called artists who entered the union in the 1910s.
Widely known as a graphics artist and creator of the so-called propaganda porcelain, he illustrated many Soviet publications, and even managed to invent a completely original way of multi-color printing on fabric.
His works are in many museums of the USSR, and his artistic legacy is thoroughly diverse.
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