Alexander Bogomazov

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Self-portrait 1911

Alexander (Oleksandr) Bogomazow ( Ukrainian Олександр Костянтинович Богомазов Oleksandr Kostjantynowytsch Bohomasow , Russian Александр Константинович Богомазов Alexander Konstantinovich Bogomasow ; born March 26, jul. / 7. April  1880 greg. In Yampil ; † 3. June 1930 in Kiev ) was a Ukrainian painter and theorists of the Russian avant-garde .

Life

From 1896 to 1902 Bogomazov attended the Agricultural College in Kherson . From 1902 to 1905, despite his father's contradiction, he studied at the art school in Kiev, where he a. a. Alexandra Exter and Alexander Archipenko met. Because of the participation in the student protests in 1905 he was expelled from the university and continued to study privately in Kiev with Professor Sergei Ivanovich Swetoslawskij, then in Moscow with Fyodor Ivanovich Rehrberg and Konstantin Fyodorowitsch Juon .

From 1908 to 1911 he continued his studies at the Kiev Art School. Together with Alexandra Exter, Dawid Dawidowitsch Burljuk and Michail Fjodorowitsch Larionow he took part in the exhibition of the artist group " Sweno " ("Chain Link").

He spent the years 1911 to 1915 in Finland as a correspondent for "Kijewskaja Mysl" ("Kiev Thoughts"). Back in Kiev he taught drawing in the school for the deaf and mute. In 1913 he married the painter W. Monastyrska. He founded a cubist - futuristic artist group "Koltso" ("Ring") which only existed for one year. He spent the period 1915–1917 as a teacher in Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus .

1917–1918 he taught at various Kiev art schools. 1919–1920 he was a co-founder of the artists' union. 1920–1922 he drew posters and illustrated children's books. In September 1922 he was appointed professor of easel painting at the Kiev Institute of Fine Arts, where he taught together with Vadim Meller , Vladimir Evgrafowitsch Tatlin and Viktor Palmow. In 1923 he fell ill with tuberculosis and died in 1930 at the age of 50. He was buried in the Lukjanivska Cemetery in Kiev.

  • "Tram" 1914. Private collection

  • "Composition N2." 1914-1915. MTAbraham collection .

  • "Fire in Kiev" 1916. National Museum of Art of Ukraine, Kiev

  • "Filing a saw" 1927

  • Portrait of daughter. 1928

literature

  • Joseph Kiblitsky: Alexander Bogomazov. Translated by Thomas Hulbert. Palace Edition, 2008. ISBN 978-3-940761-14-9

Web links

Commons : Alexander Bogomazow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Alexander Bogomazow on storinka-m.kiev.ua ; accessed on August 15, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Biography of Alexander Bogomazow on ukrainart.com.ua ; accessed on August 15, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Bogomazov, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bogomazov, Oleksandr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Jampil
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1930
Place of death Kiev