Sunday, January 23, 2011

Nikolai Kogout, A Propaganda Artist from the Young Soviet Union

.











I came across this Soviet poster image from 1922 where Finland is portrayed as 
an aggressor against the newly established Soviet Union. I checked the artist, 
Nikolai Kogout (1891 - 1951), but didn't find much more about him. I did find a 
selection of his posters on New York Digital Library image collection (Harold M. 
Fleming papers: posters, 1917-1971).


Voevat' my ne khotim, no Sovety otstoim.
.

Image Title:  Voevat' my ne khotim, no Sovety otstoim.

Alternate Title: [We Don't Want to Fight, But We'll Defend the Soviets.]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Created Date: 1922
Medium: Chromolithograph
Specific Material Type: Prints
Item Physical Description: 1 print, 104 x 62 cm







Antanta gotovit novyi pokhod, smotri v oba.
.

Image Title:  Antanta gotovit novyi pokhod, smotri v oba.

Alternate Title: [The Entente Prepares New Attack, Look at Both.]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Created Date: 1920
Medium: Chromolithograph
Specific Material Type: Prints
Item Physical Description: 1 print, 45 x 71 cm







I-oe Maia.
.

Image Title:  I-oe Maia. (Stikhi S.Gorodetskogo.)

Alternate Title: [May Day. (Verse by S.Gorodetskii.)]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Created Date: 1919
Medium: Chromolithograph
Specific Material Type: Prints
Item Physical Description: 1 print, 71 x 54 cm







S Novym Godom!
.

Image Title:  S Novym Godom!

Alternate Title: [Happy New Year!]

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Created Date: 1918
Medium: Chromolithograph
Specific Material Type: Prints
Item Physical Description: 1 print, 70 x 108 cm







Ot mraka k svetu. Ot bitvy k knige. Ot goria k schast'iu.
.

Image Title:  Ot mraka k svetu. Ot bitvy k knige. Ot goria k schast'iu.

Alternate Title: Book with slogan: From darkness to light, 
from battle to books,from sadness to joy.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Item Physical Description: 54 x 70 cm.







K vvedeniiu.
.

Image Title:  K vvedeniiu

Alternate Title: The introduction [of 'Industrialization Day.']

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 1
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







16-i s"ezd VKP (b). V sotsialisticheskoe nastuplenie po vsemu frontu.
.

Image Title:  16-i s"ezd VKP (b). V sotsialisticheskoe nastuplenie po vsemu frontu.
(Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 13, 1930)

Alternate Title: Into the socialistic offensive along the entire front!

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 9
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







V strane "gospoda-boga", t.e. v S.-A. Soedinennykh Shtatakh.
.

Image Title:  V strane "gospoda-boga", t.e. v S.-A. Soedinennykh Shtatakh.
Linchevanie negrov - eto samaia gnusnaia i arkhiomerzitel'naia forma proiavlenia
rasovoi nenavisti, vyrosshaia na pochve khristianskoi religii, naskvoz' elsploatatorskoi
i chelovekonenavistnicheskoi. Dlia burzhua i popov linchevanie - samoe vysokoe proiavlenie
kul'turnosti i khristianskoi morali, deistvie, ugodnoe gospodu-bogu. (Bezbozhnik
u stanka, No. 17-18, 1930)

Alternate Title: In God's country, that is, the United States of America.
The lynching of negroes, - the basest and most abominable form of expression
of race hatred, has thrived under the Christian religion which exploits and is
manhating through and through. For the bourgeoisie and the clergy lynching is the
highest expression of culture and Christian morals, and act pleasing in the sight of God.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 10
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







Kul'tura sovetskaia i [...].
.

Image Title:  Kul'tura sovetskaia i [...]. Sovremennyi proletariat stanovitsia na storonu
sotsialisma, kotoryi privlekaet nauku k bor'be s religioznym tumanom i osvobozhdaet
rabochego ot very v zagrobnuiu zhizn' tem, chto splachivaet ego dlia nastoiashchei
bor'by za luchshuiu zemnuiu zhizn'. (Lenin). [Bezbozhnik u stanka, November 1, 1930)

Alternate Title: Soviet culture and [...]. The contemporary proletariat is coming over
to the side of socialism which is drawing science into the fight against the fog of religion,
and is freeing the workers from belief in the hereafter by rallying them
for a better life on earth through fighting for it. (Lenin).

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 13
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







K 13-i godovshchine Krasnoi armii.
.

Image Title:  K 13-i godovshchine Krasnoi armii. Krasnaia armiia - vernyi
zashchitnik SSSR, sotsialisticheskogo otechestva trudiashchikhsia vsego mira.
Da zdravstvuet Krasnaia armiia! (Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 4, 1931)

Alternate Title: 13th Anniversary of the Red Army.
The Red Army - the true defender of the U.S.S.R., the socialistic fatherland of the toilers
of all the world. Long live the Red Army!

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 16
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







V kapitalisticheskom mire 35 millionov bezrabotnykh.
.

Image Title:  V kapitalisticheskom mire 35 millionov bezrabotnykh.
Papa Pii XI: Terpi, syn moi, molis' gospodu, - on tia napitaet ... 
(Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 8, 1931)

Alternate Title: 35 million unemployed in the capitalistic world.

Pope Pius XI: 'Be patient, my son, pray to the Lord, - He will feed you ...'

Creator(s): Urbetis, K. -- Artist 
Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 19
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.







Pervoe Maia za granitsei v 1931 g. Eto - pervomaiskii veter ...
.

Image Title:  Pervoe Maia za granitsei v 1931 g. Eto - pervomaiskii veter ...
A skoro budet i oktiabr'skii uragan! (Bezbozhnik u stanka, No. 11, 1931)

Alternate Title: First of May abroad in 1931.
This is the May Day wind - but soon there will be an October hurricane.

Creator: Kogout, N. -- Artist
Additional Name(s): Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov SSSR.
TSentral'nyi sovet -- Associated name
Item/Page/Plate: p. 26
Source: Bezbozhnik
Source Description: 19 v. ill. (part col.), ports.(part col.) 30-35 cm.















No comments:

Post a Comment

Books by Ridou Ridou