Getmanski, Mikhail Panteleymonovich (Михаил Пантелеймонович Гетманский)
Mikhail Panteleymonovich Getmanski (Михаил Пантелеймонович Гетманский ; October 13, 1900 - 1969) was a Russian-Soviet graphic artist and illustrator. He was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. The background to his training is unknown, but he produced works for several important early Soviet-era publishing houses, including Krug (Круг), Gosizdat (Госиздат), OGIZ (ОГИЗ), and Detgiz (Детгиз). Getmanski also became the staff artist for the magazine Circus and Variety Arts (цирк и эстрада), originally just Circus (цирк), designing its covers and interior illustrations. He also illustrated many fiction books over the course of his career, including translations of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Maracot Deep and H.G. Wells' short story 'The New Accelerator.' He is best known in cartographic terms for preparing a 1938 pictorial tourist map of Moscow for Intourist. Getmanski's entire body of work is notable for combining elements of Art Deco design with Russian and Soviet norms, contributing to a distinctly Soviet aesthetic of the 1920s - 1940s.
AKA: Михаил Пантелеймонович Гетманский
Tourism amid Stalin's Great Terror.
Moscow / Moscow Pictorial Street-Map.
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This is Michael (Mikhail) Getmanski's 1938 pictorial map of Moscow, prepared for the Soviet tourist agency, Intourist. Produced at the height of Stalin's Great Terror, it gives no hint of the turmoil underway, instead presenting the Soviet capital as a placid wonderland of beautiful gardens, wide boulevards, and monumental architecture. Intourist publications, particularly their maps, are highly collectibe and admired for their high-quality printing and Soviet Art Deco graphics. (more details)