Pavel Andreevich Mansurov ( fr. Paul Mansouroff ; 1896 - 1983 ) - French artist of Russian origin, graphic artist.
| Pavel Andreevich Mansurov | |
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| Date of Birth | March 2 (14), 1896 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Petersburg Russian empire |
| Date of death | February 2, 1983 (86 years old) |
| Place of death | Nice , France |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Site | mansouroff.org |
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 | "Mirage", 1918, mascara. |
| “Little Girl in the Manege”, 1933, oil. |
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Biography
Born on March 2 ( March 14, according to the new style) in 1896 in St. Petersburg; was the son of a singer in a church choir.
Since 1909 he studied at the Central School of Technical Drawing (now the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and Industry ) - studied engraving and etching under the guidance of V.V. Mate . In 1912 he entered the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Promotion of Arts , where he studied under N.P. Chimona and P.S. Naumov . At the end of school, in 1915, he was mobilized in the army and sent to the front. He served in the 1st Aviation Regiment and in the Office of the Air Force RIA. [one]
At the end of 1917 he returned to Petrograd , where he met V.E. Tatlin , K. S. Malevich , M. V. Matyushin . He created the scenery and costumes for the artistic cabaret " Comedians ' Halt " [2] . Here he painted his first abstract paintings. At the invitation of Tatlin, he worked for some time in his workshop in Moscow. Upon his return to Petrograd, in the fall of 1918, he participated in the festive decoration of St. Isaac's Square on the 1st anniversary of the revolution and in the design of the first production of the play “ Mystery Buff ” by V.V. Mayakovsky in the scenery of Malevich. At the end of 1919, Mansurov went to his parents in Kazan . There was a Civil War and he was arrested by the Cheka on suspicion of desertion, spent some time in prison. [1] Since the fall of 1920, he directed the workshop at the painting faculty of the Kazan Art College.
He returned to Moscow and in 1921 organized an exhibition of artists of all directions for the delegates of the 3rd Congress of the Third International, which also showed vertical abstract compositions on boards. In 1923 he participated in the creation of the State Institute of Artistic Culture (GINHUK) in Petrograd and headed its experimental department; at the same time worked in VKhUTEIN . Participated in the Exhibition of Petrograd artists of all directions (1923); exhibited abroad - at the 1st Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin (1922) and the 14th International Biennale in Venice (1924). In 1926, at the GINHUK, he created a memorial to S. Yesenin , combining the poet’s photographs with a real peasant costume, pieces of bark and painted boards. [3]
In August 1928, Pavel Mansurov traveled from the All-Union Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries on a business trip to Italy to arrange a personal exhibition, from where he did not return. In 1929, he held an exhibition at the Bragaglia Gallery in Rome and participated in the Venice Biennale, where he received a silver medal for theatrical sketches for S. P. Diaghilev's ballets. In June 1929 he moved to Paris . Due to the decline in public interest in abstract art, he temporarily left painting and turned to decorative and applied art. He worked in the studio with Leonid Kudin , later he began to independently execute drawings of fabrics for haute couture houses Patou, Chanel, Lanvin and others. In the 1930s he lived on Montparnasse , revolved in the circle of Russian emigration. Before World War II, he participated in exhibitions of Russian artists in the galleries Zak (1930) and d'Alignan (1931), in the salon of the Super Independent (1934), in the 6th Triennial of Arts in Milan [4] (1936), in the World Exhibition in Paris (1937), Salon Tuileries (1939) and in the joint “Salon 1940” in the Chaillot Palace (1940).
Awakened after the war, interest in the Russian avant-garde of 1910-1920 inspired Mansurov to return to his former painting, returning to abstract art. In 1957 he showed his work at the exhibition “50 years of abstract art” in the Croesus Gallery in Paris; held solo exhibitions in many European cities - Frankfurt (1961), Cannes (1962, 1965), Berlin (1963), Milan (1963, 1967, 1975, 1979), Paris (1968, 1971, 1972-1974) Nice (1974), Genoa (1974) and others.
In recent years, he lived a lot in Nice, where he died on February 2, 1983 at the Pasteur hospital.
In 1995, an exhibition was held at the State Russian Museum , where his compatriots could get acquainted with the work of Pavel Mansurov. In 2006, the same museum released a multimedia disc "Pavel Mansurov" (in the series "Russian Artist").
Bibliography
- "Beauty in exile." Alexander Vasiliev , text and compilation, “WORD”, 1998. ISBN 978-5-387-00033-1 .