Viktor Deni

The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is satirist. Work by Viktor Deni is recorded in the collections of Tate and Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

• Name — Viktor Deni • Birth Name — Viktor Nikolaevich Denisov • Born — 8 March 1893 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian Empire • Died — 3 August 1946 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Soviet (1917–1946)

• Illustration — "Comrade Lenin sweeps the Earth clean from filth", 1920 Born in Moscow in 1893, Denisov later shortened his surname to Deni. Deni moved to St. Petersburg in 1913 where he established himself as a successful caricaturist, his caricatures appearing in a number of illustrated satirical journals. After the October Revolution 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 Bolsheviks. He produced nearly 50 political posters during the Russian Civil War, 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. Deni taught poster artist Nina Vatolina from 1935 until 1939; Vatolina married his son, Nikolai, in 1934. During the German–Soviet War (World War II), 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.