Aristarch Vasilyevich Lentulow

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St. Basil's Cathedral , Moscow , 1913

Aristarch Wassiljewitsch Lentulow ( Russian Аристарх Васильевич Лентулов ; * 4th January July / 16 January  1882 greg. In Chornaya Pyatina near Nizhny Lomov , Penza Governorate , today: Penza Oblast , was a Russian and Moscow Oblast 1943 ; † April 15, 1943 in Moscow ) Painter, set designer and teacher.

Born in the family of an Orthodox clergyman, Lentulow studied painting at the art schools in Penza (1898–1900 and 1905–1906) and Kiev (1900–1905), then privately with Dmitri Kardowski in Saint Petersburg (1906–1907).

First participation in exhibitions in 1907 in St. Petersburg Contemporary Movements and in Kiev Der Bund , followed 1909–1910 by exhibitions of the Association of Russian Artists . In 1910 he co-founded the Moscow artist group “ Karo-Bube ” ( Russian Бубновый валет ), later as a regular exhibitor until 1927.

From 1910 to 1911 Lentulow studied in Paris in the Le Fauconnier studio and worked in the Académie de la Palette's studio . There he met Jean Metzinger , Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay . After returning home in 1912, he influenced the development of Russian futurism , u. a. by Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malewitsch , with a later transition to Cubo-Futurism . - From 1913 Lentulov painted Russian churches and other architectural motifs in a cubist process. Together with Robert Genin , Alexej Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky and Marianne von Werefkin , he took part in the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1914 .

Even before the October Revolution , Lentulow began to design sets for the Moscow Chamber Theater ("The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare , 1916) and for the Bolshoi Theater ("Promethée. Le Poème du feu" by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin , 1919).

The First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 showed his paintings Portrait , Landscape , Two Women , Still Life , Landscape .

In 1925 he took part in the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern and was awarded an honorary diploma for the set design for Rubinstein's opera “The Demon”.

In 1928 Lentulov became a member of the Moscow Artists Association and its chairman. Many of the club's members were former members of the “ diamond boys ” group.

Lentulow starts from the search for form and light, which is so typical of the successors to the Paul Cézanne school , who in Russia are still particularly characterized by their enchanting oriental coloring. While Lentulow painted pictures with radiant folk colors in 1913, he adopted Cézanne's muted color palette a year later.

Lentulow also dealt with didactics. Since 1919 he gave lectures at the Wchutemas , in 1937 he was appointed professor at the Moscow Surikov Institute.

  • Woman with Guitar 1913

  • Wife and daughter

  • Self-portrait 1915

bibliography

  • М. Лентулова: Художник А. Лентулов. Воспоминания (artist A. Lentulow. Memories). - Moscow 1969.

Web links

Commons : Aristarch Lentulow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uwe M. Schneede (ed.): Chagall, Kandinsky, Malewitsch and the Russian avant-garde , Verlag Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0797-2 , p. 168
  2. ^ From First Russian Art Exhibition: Berlin 1922 , Galerie van Diemen & Co. / ed. by Eberhard Roters. Commented by Horst Richter. - reprint [d. Ed.] Berlin, Galerie van Diemen, 1922. - Cologne: König 1988, ISBN 3-88375-085-9
personal data
SURNAME Lentulow, Aristarch Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лентулов, Аристарх Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter, set designer and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Chornaya Pyatina near Nizhny Lomow , Penza Governorate , today: Penza Oblast
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1943
Place of death Moscow