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Martinoski, Nikola
(b Krusevo, 18 Aug 1903; d Skopje, 7 Feb 1973). Macedonian painter. In 1919 he attended lectures on art at the icon-painting workshop of Dimitar Andonov-Papradiski (1859–1954) in Skopje. In 1920 he moved to Bucharest, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1927. He lived in Paris (1927–8), frequenting the Académie de la Grand Chaumière as well as studying under Roger Bissière and Moïse Kisling at the Académie Ranson. He then settled in Skopje, acting as a corresponding member of the Belgrade group Oblik. In the 1930s Martinoski developed a version of Expressionism that, despite its derivation from the ECOLE DE PARIS, was strongly related to the painterly procedures and the social and political commitment of NEUE SACHLICHKEIT. During the 1930s his work evolved from portraits and religious subjects to social issues and evocative monumental compositions executed in several public locations and private residences in Skopje. In 1935 he decorated his family’s coffee-house, Okean (destr.) in Skopje, with 12 explicitly erotic wall paintings. After 1945 he helped establish the Art Gallery in Skopje, and he became its director. He is considered one of the most gifted pioneers of modern Macedonian art.
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