Anton Abramowitsch Pewsner
Anton Abramovich Pewsner , later known as Antoine Pevsner ( Russian Антон Абрамович Певзнер ; born January 18 . Jul / the thirtieth January 1884 greg. In Klimovichi , Mogilev Governorate ; † 12. April 1962 in Paris ) was a Russian painter and sculptor and how his brother Naum Gabo an artist of constructivism .
From 1902 to 1910 he attended the art school in Kiev and the academy in St. Petersburg . From 1911 to 1913 he made the acquaintance of Archipenko and Modigliani in Paris . In 1913 he moved to Paris and began abstract painting . 1915-16 he lived in Oslo, from where he moved to Moscow. Here he taught at the art academy from 1917 .
Together with his brother, he published the Realistic Manifesto in Moscow in 1920 .
In 1923 he returned to Paris. In 1931 he was a founding member of the artist movement Abstraction-Création in Paris, together with Theo van Doesburg , Naum Gabo , Auguste Herbin and Georges Vantongerloo . In 1946 he took part in the exhibition Concrete Art at the René Drouin Gallery, together with Sonia Delaunay-Terk , Wassily Kandinsky , Alberto Magnelli and Herbin.
Pewsner was a participant in documenta 1 (1955) and documenta II in 1959 in Kassel .
literature
- Doina Lemny: Antoine Pevsner - Dans Les Collections Du Mnam. (Paperback), ISBN 2-84426-095-0
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| SURNAME | Pewsner, Anton Abramowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pevsner, Antoine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klimovichi , Mogilev Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1962 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |