Walter Nouvel

Walter Fyodorovich Nouvel (; 1871–1949) was a Russian émigré art-lover and writer.

Early life

Walter Nouvel met Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, future impresario of the Ballets Russes, when Diaghilev moved to Saint Petersburg to study law. Nouvel made up part of the Nevsky Pickwickians. Nouvel started working as a pseudo-manager for Mir iskusstva in 1898.

Career

He co-wrote with Arnold Haskell a biography of Diaghilev (Diaghileff. His Artistic and Private life).

Nouvel fled Soviet Russia in 1919 and worked as secretary and factotum for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Further reading

• Diaghilev, Sergei "Sergei Diaghilev i russkoe iskusstvo: stati, otkrytye pis'ma, interv'yu" ed. I.S Zil'bershtein and V.A Samkov, Fine Art (Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo), vol. 2 (1982): 342 - 343.

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