Anton Michailowitsch Lawinsky

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Anton Michailowitsch Lawinski ( Russian Антон Михайлович Лавинский , scientific transliteration Anton Michajlovič Lavinskij ; * 1893 in Sochi , † 1968 in Moscow ) was a Russian architect , sculptor and graphic artist who is counted among the Russian avant-garde .

Life

Lawinski, son of a customs worker for the coast guard, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Construction at the Technical School in Baku in 1913 and then went to St. Petersburg , where he studied sculpture under Leonid Sherwood from 1913 at the Russian Art Academy . After military service from 1915 to 1917 he organized a school studio in his hometown and attended further courses and workshops with Sherwood and Alexander Matwejew in 1918/1919 .

In 1919 he went to Saratov , where he was a member of the artist community Общества художников нового искусства and gave workshops. In 1920 he went to Moscow, where he made friends with Vladimir Mayakovsky and other members of the group of artists of the Institute for Artistic Culture INChUK (ИНХУК). In 1921 he became a member of the Left Front of the Arts (LEF) group. In 1921 Lawinski planned a multi-storey "city on shock absorbers" with rotating houses that follow the position of the sun. Its areas, such as traffic and living, are structured vertically.

From 1921 to 1926 he taught at the Wchutemas , first the subject “body construction” and then wood sculpture. He designed a series of posters in the mid-1920s that are now in the Russian State Library :

  • 1924 on the film Strike (1925; Director: Sergei Eisenstein )
  • 1925 for the film The Death Ray (1925; Director: Lew Kuleschow )
  • 1925 on the "Project of the Speaker's Stage"
  • 1926 on the film Battleship Potemkin (1925; Director: Sergei Eisenstein)
  • 1926 for "Forestry and Timber Industry in the USSR"
  • 1926 for "Export and Import in the USSR"
  • 1926 on the film After the Law (1926; Director: Lew Kuleschow)
  • 1926: "State publishing house: workers' faculty at home"

In 1931 he became a member of the AHR ( АХР ).

His son Nikita Lawinski (1921–1986), whose biological father is said to have been Mayakovsky, was a sculptor from Nikolai Tomski's school and created some monumental sculptures .

Participation in exhibitions

Others

Alexander Rodtschenko photographed Lawinsky around 1923. A reprint of the portrait photo is in the Museum Ludwig .

literature

  • Hanno-Walter Kruft : history of architectural theory: from antiquity to the present . Beck, Munich 2004 ISBN 3-406-34903-X , p. 488.
  • Thomas Möbius : Russian social utopias from Peter I. to Stalin . LIT Verlag, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-13077-8 , p. 484.
  • Anton M. Lavinsky. In: Europa, Europa: the century of the avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe: Bonn, May 27 to October 16, 1994, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany. Foundation for Art and Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1994, p. 80.
  • Lavinsky, Anton Mikhailovich. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Gründ, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7000-3078-8 , Volume 8, pp. 563-564.
  • Anton Mikhailovich Lawinsky. In: The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 751 (exhibition catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Лавинский Антон Михайлович - Скульптор, архитектор, график, дизайнер, сценограф. ourbaku.com.
  2. ↑ Liberation from the topos ; in: Thomas Möbius: Russian social utopias from Peter I. to Stalin. LIT Verlag, Münster 2015, p. 484. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ Barbara Kreis: Between "Living Classics", Rationalism and Constructivism. The "Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops" WCHUTEMAS in Moscow 1920–1930 . Online .
  4. ^ Movie poster strike by Eisenstein. Fine Art Images.
  5. ^ Movie poster for The Death Ray by Lew Kuleschow. Fine Art Images.
  6. ^ Project of the speaker's stage. Fine Art Images.
  7. ^ Movie poster Battleship Potemkin. Fine Art Images.
  8. ^ Forestry and timber industry in the USSR. Fine Art Images.
  9. ↑ Export and import in the USSR. Fine Art Images.
  10. ^ Movie poster According to Lew Kuleschow's law. Fine Art Images.
  11. ^ State publishing house: Workers' Faculty at home. Fine Art Images.
  12. ↑ Alexander Michailowitsch Rodchenko: Anton Lawinski. Image index of art and architecture .
personal data
SURNAME Lawinsky, Anton Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lavinskij, Anton Michajlovič; Лавинский, Антон Михайлович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian architect, sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Sochi
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Moscow