Evgeny Fedorovich Kovtun ( February 29, 1928 , the village of Maryanskaya, Krasnodar Territory - January 4, 1996 , St. Petersburg) - Soviet and Russian art historian , famous scientist, specialist in the field of Russian avant-garde .
| Evgeny Kovtun | |
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| Date of Birth | February 29, 1928 |
| Place of Birth | village Maryanskaya , Krasnodar Territory , USSR |
| Date of death | January 4, 1996 (aged 67) |
| A place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russia |
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He has prepared a number of exhibitions and catalogs dedicated to the Russian avant-garde , is also the author of numerous studies, articles and books published in Russia and other countries. Main research topics: Russian book illustration of the late 19th - first half of the 20th century; Russian print and engraving of the first half of the 20th century; the work of the Russian avant-garde artists - K. Malevich, V. Tatlin, M. Larionov, M. Matyushin, P. Mansurov [1] .
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- 2.1 Books
- 2.2 Articles
- 3 Sources
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in the village of Maryanskaya in 1928 in a family of Kuban Cossacks, his father is a teacher. In 1930, his family moved to Sestroretsk. During the war, along with his mother, was evacuated to the Altai Territory. In 1944, he returned to Leningrad with his family. In 1948 he graduated from evening school and entered the history department of Leningrad State University with a degree in art history, graduated in 1953. In 1953-1956 he studied at the graduate school of the department of art history, the theme of his scientific work was “Russian Art Picture 1870 years. "
From 1956 to the end of his life, he worked at the State Russian Museum , from 1963 in the department of graphics, and since 1971, he was a senior researcher. In 1977 he defended his thesis.
In 1964, he met the artist V.V. Sterligov , and under his influence began to become interested in the art of the Russian avant-garde. It adjoins the “Staropeterhof school”, created by V. V. Sterligov and S. N. Spitsin, which received this name because meetings and exhibitions of artists were held in Old Peterhof , in the house of the artist S. N. Spitsyn.) The circle of the Star Peterhof school included V. Sterligov, T. N. Glebova , P. M. Kondratyev (until 1965), S. N. Spitsyn, V. P. Volkov (until 1965), art critic A. V. Povelykhina . [2] Sterligov and his circle studied the theory of the surplus element of K. S. Malevich, “the five newest systems in art - impressionism, Cezannism, cubism, suprematism, except futurism”, investigated color. They considered their work to be a continuation (with an interruption of more than 30 years) of the research work carried out at GINHUK. [3]
He died in St. Petersburg in 1996 [4]
Bibliography
Books
- What is a print. - L .: Artist of the RSFSR, 1963. - 94 p.
- Andrey Ushin . - Artist of the RSFSR, 1967 .
- Vanguard, stopped on the run . - Aurora, 1989 .
- Povelikina Alla , Kovtun Eugene. Russian pictorial sign and avant-garde artists. - L .: Aurora , 1991 .-- 200 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 5-7300-0274-2 .
- Opere di Paul Mansouroff / Text: E. Kovtoun. Palazzo Reale, Caserta, 1983
- The Russian period of Mansurov // Pavel Mansurov. Petrograd avant-garde. Catalog. Timing. 1995.
- Russian avant-garde of the 1920-1930s . - Aurora, 1996 .
- Mikhail Larionov. 1881-1964. . - Aurora, 1998 .
- Avant Garde Art in Russia (Schools and Movements) . - Parkstone Press Ltd, 1998 .
- Russian futuristic book. M.: Book, 1989
- Kovtun E.F. Russian futuristic book. - M .: RIP-holding, 2014 .-- 232 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-903190-66-9 .
Articles
- From the history of the Russian avant-garde. (P.N. Filonov) .// Yearbook of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House on 1977.- L.- 1979.
- Kovtun Ye. F. Role “Secret Spring”. Pavel Mansurov and the organization of the GINHUK // Poetry and painting: Collection of works in memory of N. I. Khardzhiev / Compilation and general edition of M. B. Meilakh and D. V. Sarabyanov . - M .: Languages of Russian culture , 2000. - S. 269-285 . - ISBN 5-7859-0074-2 .
Sources
- Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg
- “Serving the Russian Avant-Garde.” - St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 1998 .
- “Russian avant-garde. Unfinished pages. In memory of E. Kovtun ”- St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 1999 .
Notes
- ↑ Kovtun E. Formula of the sign. Pavel Mansurov // Povelikina A., Kovtun E. Russian pictorial sign and avant-garde artists. L., 1991.
- ↑ Spitsyna E. World of infinity. / Sixteen Fridays: The second wave of the Leningrad avant-garde / Experiment / Experiment: Journal of Russian culture. No. 16 / В 2 ч. / LA (USA), 2010.V. 1. С 60 69
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ The wife of E.F. Kovtun, art critic Larisa Kostina (1941-1994) also voluntarily passed away, in July 1994 / “Serving the Russian avant-garde. In memory of E. F. Kovtun. ”Palace Editions, 1998, p. 81.