Poster "Strengthen the defense of the maritime borders of the USSR", 1929

An original and extremely rare poster in excellent collectible condition. Art Publishing Joint Stock Company AHR. Circulation 15,000 pcs. Artist Deikin B. N. Size 1080*700 mm. Guarantee of authenticity.

Boris Nikolaevich Deikin (June 23, 1890 — March 29, 1945). Soviet painter, graphic artist, theater artist, author of propaganda posters. He worked in etching and lithography techniques. Member of the MOSSX (MSSX, 1932). He was born in Lithuania near Kovno. He studied in Moscow in the evening classes of the Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School (1908-1909), at the F. I. Rerberg School (1910-1913). He made trips to Italy (1912), the Caucasus and the Crimea (1911-1913). He continued his studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZHVZ), in 2 State Free Art workshops, 1913-1918) in the workshop of A. E. Arkhipov.

In 1918 he worked as an artist of theaters in Orenburg and Perm. He taught at the 1st stage school in Moscow (1919). In the direction of the Department of the People's Commissariat of Education, he left for Yekaterinburg in 1920, worked as an artist in the city theater. He taught at the Yekaterinburg State Art Workshops, where he led a decorative workshop (1920-1921).

Since 1921 he lived in Moscow, joined the AHRR (1922), made a trip to the Kuban (1925). In 1931, he was on a creative business trip to the Black Sea Fleet, based on the collected material, he painted a number of paintings dedicated to the everyday life of Black Sea sailors: "On Guard of the sea borders" (1931), "Signalman" (1930s), "Submarine" (1936-1937).

Boris Deikin is the author of thematic paintings on the themes of industry and defense of the USSR: "The Fisherman" (1918), "Potato Harvest" (1925), Morning cleaning of the ship" (1928), "Political hour on the ship" (1928), "Dneprostroy" (1929), "Ashore" (1930), "Avral – loading coal into the sea" (1933), "Panorama of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant" (1935), "Elbrus from afar" (1936), "Caught" (1943).

Dakin began working in the genre of propaganda posters since the 1920s. He is the author of propaganda posters produced in the Art Publishing House of the Joint-Stock Company AHR: "Strengthen the defense of the maritime borders of the USSR" (1929), "A disabled person on a socialist construction site" (1920s), "Shock work will provide the city with bread, collective farms with machines" (1930s), "Down with oppression and philistinism of home life!" (1932).

During the Great Patriotic War, he was evacuated to Omsk. He worked in the propaganda "Windows of the OMSH", produced multi-plot expressive posters in a stencil way, accompanied them with complex texts: Window No. 13 "A draft from the East" (1941), Window No. 22 "The Nut also shoots" (1941), Window No. 28 "In the days of hot sowing..." (1941), Window No. 32 "They cannot take away the criminal heads!" (1942).