Dawid Dawidowitsch Burlyuk

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David Burliuk
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David Burliuk ( Russian Давид Давидович Бурлюк ;. Scientific transliteration David Burliuk Davidovič * July 9 jul. / 21st July  1882 greg. In Semirotowschtschina , Kharkov Governorate ; † 15. January 1967 in Long Iceland, New York ) was a Russian -american poet and visual artist who belonged to the Russian avant-garde . His siblings Lyudmila , Vladimir and Nikolaj were also avant-garde artists.

life and work

Dawid Burljuk alternately attended art schools in Kazan and Odessa from 1898 to 1902 . Together with his brother Wladimir Burljuk he studied from 1902 in Munich at the school of Anton Ažbe and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Wilhelm von Diez , in 1904/05 with Fernand Cormon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.

In 1907 Burljuk returned from abroad and became one of the leading figures of the avant-garde. Burljuk was a co-founder and member of avant-garde artistic associations ( Hyläa , donkey's tail ) and took part in numerous avant-garde exhibitions: The wreath (Russian Венок) in Moscow (1907-1908), The triangle (Russian Треугольник) in St. Petersburg (1910) , Jack of Diamonds , Bund der Jugend (Russian Союз Молодежи) (1910–1912). In 1908 he organized the Sweno exhibition in Kiev , for which he also published his first manifesto.

In 1911 Burljuk wrote an article for the catalog of the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM) and in 1912 the article The "Wild" of Russia for the almanac Der Blaue Reiter ; The paintings head and horses were shown in the artist group's exhibition , the head was reproduced in the almanac . In 1913 he and his brother Wladimir took part in the First German Autumn Salon in Herwarth Walden's “Der Sturm” gallery in Berlin, where five of his paintings were offered for sale. In collaboration with the poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vasily Kamensky , he organized a tour of the Futurists through 17 Russian cities in 1913/1914 . Together with Robert Genin , Alexej Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky and Marianne von Werefkin , he took part in the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö in 1914 .

Dawid Burljuk was the author of many futuristic publications ( The roaring Parnassus , The Altar Book of the Three , Garden of the Judges and others); from 1915 he was editor of the First Futurist Journal and from 1918 co-editor of the newspaper of the futurists .

After staying in the Urals and Siberia during the October Revolution from 1917 to 1919 , he decided to leave Russia. From 1920 to 1922 he toured Japan and the South Pacific and from 1922 emigrated to the United States for the rest of his life.

In the United States, David Burliuk published Color and Rhyme magazine. In 1967, the year he died, he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

On September 1, 2016, a plaque in honor of Burliuk was unveiled in Odessa.

Works

  • David Burliuk: Second manifest / David Burliuk, radio-futurist, artist and poet . 1927
  • NA Zubkova (ed.): Fragmenty iz vospominanij futurista . 1994
photos
Work

literature

Exhibition catalogs

  • David Burliuk: Pictures from 1907 to 1966 . The first major retrospective exhibition in Germany by the Russian futurist and the last surviving member of the group “Der Blaue Reiter”. Bauhaus University Weimar. Exhibition from September 2 to October 15, 1966.

Web links

Commons : David Burliuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc: Der Blaue Reiter. Munich 2004, pp. 41–50
  2. Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc: Der Blaue Reiter. Munich 2004, p. 49
  3. http://www.worldcat.org/title/color-and-rhyme/oclc/8558263
  4. Members: David Burliuk. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  5. http://odessa.net.ua/news/v-odesse-pojavilas-memorialnaja-doska-hudozhniku-davidu-burljuku