Vadym Meller

Vadym Meller (or Vadim Meller, 1884?1962) was a Ukrainian-Russian Soviet painter, avant-garde artist (Cubist, Constructivist), theatrical designer, book illustrator and architect. Meller was born in Saint-Petersburg. He was the second son of a top official in the Ministry of Justice in the Russian Empire. His father George Meller was a noble-born Swede, his mother Helena Caruso, half-Italian-half-Greek, was also from a noble family. From 1903 to 1908 he was the student of Kiev University. In 1905 Vadim Meller visited Geneva, Switzerland where he was taking art lessons in private school of Franz Roubaud. In 1908 with recommendation of Roubaud he continued his education in private art school of Drawing and Painting of Heinrich Knirr in Munich, Germany. After graduating from the Kiev University with a degree in law, he acquired artistic education in the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (from 1908 to 1912).