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Naum Gabo ( French Naum Gabo , real name Naum Borisovich [Neemia Berkovich] Pevzner ; August 5, 1890 , Bryansk - August 23, 1977 , Waterbury , Connecticut ) - Russian and American artist, sculptor and architect, art theorist, one of the leaders of world art avant-garde . Belonged to constructivism , became one of the pioneers of kinetic art . Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1973). Brother Antoine Pevzner .
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Biography
His parents Boris (Berko) Grigorievich Pevzner and Agripina (Fanny) Borisovna Pevzner (Ur. Ozerskaya) [4] . Studied in Tomsk , Kursk . Since 1914 he lived and worked abroad (France, Norway, Germany). Since 1915 he performed under a pseudonym.
After the February Revolution , in the fall of 1917, he returned to Russia with his older brother, Anton Pevzner . He taught at VKHUTEMAS , was close to Tatlin , Malevich , Rodchenko . Exhibited in Moscow with his brother and G. Klutsis . He made a sharp “Realistic manifesto” against cubism and futurism , upholding the idea of “depth” as a unity of space and time, movement and mass, but rejecting line, volume and color as purely external, “picturesque” elements.
In 1922 he emigrated from Soviet Russia. He moved to Germany, where he met the artist Adolf Oberlander , taught at the Bauhaus . In 1927 , together with his brother, he designed for Diaghilev the ballet Henri Soge "The Cat ".
In 1932 he moved to France, was close to Mondrian . Since 1935 - in the UK, where he had a strong influence on the British art avant-garde ( B. Nicholson , B. Hepworth , L. Martin). Since 1946 - in the USA (since 1952 - American citizen). He taught at Harvard . In 1961 he visited the USSR.
Recognition
Honorary Doctor of the Royal College of Art in London , awarded the Loganov Medal for his contribution to art (USA), awarded the Order of the British Empire .
Texts
- Of divers arts. New York: Pantheon Books, 1962
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Constructing Modernity: The Art & Career of Naum Gabo
Literature
- Bowlt JE Russian art of the avant-garde: theory and criticism, 1902-1934. - New York: Viking Press, 1976.
- Hammer M., Lodder Chr. Constructing modernity: the art & career of Naum Gabo. - New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
- Pevzner A. Road. On the side of the road. - M .: Izmailovo, 1992.
- Leykind O. L., Makhrov K. V., Severyukhin D. Ya. Artists of the Russian Abroad: Biographical Dictionary. - SPb. : Notabene, 2000.
Links
- Naum Gabo (1890-1977) (inaccessible link) . Center for Contemporary Art named after N. Roslavets and N. Gabo. Archived on November 13, 2007.