Eduard Arkadjewitsch Steinberg

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Eduard Arkadjewitsch Steinberg ( Russian Эдуард Аркадьевич Штейнберг ; born March 3, 1937 in Moscow , † March 28, 2012 in Paris ) was a Russian painter whose works are partly post- Suprematist and oriented towards Malevich .

Life

Eduard Steinberg grew up in Moscow. His childhood was shaped by the imprisonment of his father, a poet and artist, in the camp, especially by accusations of being the son of an enemy of the people . The father returned from the Gulag in 1954 and moved to Tarussa , where Eduard Steinberg lived with him from 1957 to 1961 and did autodidactic studies. A first solo exhibition of works from Tarussa took place in his Moscow apartment in 1962. The themes initially were death, funerals and resurrection. At the beginning of the 1970s, light landscape still lifes with spatial-geometric compositions were created as oil paintings, and since 1980 also gouaches and collages on cardboard. In 1988 it was possible for him for the first time to be present at one of his exhibitions abroad. After the death of his father, he retired to the country in 1984 and began working on his cycle Das Dorf , which is a high point of his work and was exhibited in Moscow for the first time in 1989; it is considered a synthesis of the artist's life and work.

Since 1991 Steinberg lived and worked in Paris, Moscow and Tarussa.

art

During the years when the style of Socialist Realism predominated almost exclusively in Russian art , Steinberg referred to artists of Constructivism and Suprematism . Although he resorted to Malevich in the choice of his motifs, he introduced a new perspective to the viewer with numbers, signs and symbols. In his large cycle Das Dorf , in whose pictures faces are only outlined, it is not the strict construction that makes the pictures so special, “but rather their poetic exaggeration. They are stories that he tells in his pictures with metaphors in which Russia can be recognized in all its diversity. ” In contrast to Malevich, whose pictures are symbolically charged with signs of the technological utopia of the avant-garde , Steinberg's pictorial signs have more of a“ contemplative symbolic meaning reaching into the religious ”, of which the cross stands out. The Berlin art historian Claudia Beelitz has shown that in this “metaphysical” area there are amazing parallels in terms of visual composition, color, light and space to the still lifes of the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi .

In 2013, his widow Galina Manevič handed over the estate of 68 paintings and 15 collage works by Steinberg to the Museum Wiesbaden . There they should be scientifically processed by 2015.

Works

Exhibitions

Pictures (selection)

year Image title Art Dimensions abode
1981 composition Oil on canvas 150 × 100 cm Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
1985 The living and the dead Oil on canvas 90 × 360 cm Ludwig Collection , Cologne
1988 Landscape with cross Gouache on cardboard 37 × 41 cm Ludwig Collection, Cologne
1989 composition Oil on canvas 120 × 130 cm Claude Bernard Gallery, New York

Exhibition catalogs

  • Hans-Peter Riese (Ed.): East / West. Eduard Steinberg between Moscow and Paris . Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-248-4
  • Iozef Kiblickij (Ed.): Eduard Steinberg, Heaven and Earth. Reflections in Paints . The State Tretyakov Gallery, Palace Ed., Bad Breisig 2004, ISBN 3-938051-02-7
  • Evgenija N. Petrova (Ed.): Ėduard Šteinberg = Eduard Steinberg . Gosudarstvennyj Russkij Muzej St. Petersburg. Palace Ed., Bad Breisig 2004, ISBN 3-935298-91-9
  • Hans-Peter Riese: Eduard Steinberg. Monograph . Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen 1998, ISBN 3-87909-615-5
  • Jean-Pierre Brossard (Ed.): Eduard Steinberg. A monograph . Editions d'en Haut, LaChaux-de-Fonds 1992, ISBN 2-88251-038-1
  • Wenzel Stich, Eduard Steijnberg: Ostankino . Lyric prose . Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld 1985

literature

  • Claudia Beelitz: Eduard Steinberg. Metaphysical painting between thaw and perestroika . Böhlau; Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-21705-0
  • Bernhard Küppers: painter of the swaying cross . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 11, 1988
  • Hans-Peter Riese: The look down. The Soviet painter Eduard Steinberg in Moscow . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 10, 1989
  • Thomas Strauss: Malevich stood on his feet . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 14, 1990
  • Hans-Peter Riese / Roman Zieglgänsberger (ed. On behalf of the Museum Wiesbaden): East / West - Eduard Steinberg between Moscow and Paris , Wienand, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-248-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ В Париже скончался русский художник Эдуард Штейнберг . March 28, 2012, Retrieved March 28, 2012. (Russian)
  2. ^ Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Riese in: Continuity and Concentration. The work of Eduard Steinberg. 1992
  4. ↑ Ulrich Schumacher in: Eduard Steinberg. A monograph . 1992
  5. ↑ Hans-Peter Riese: Eduard Steinberg . 1998
  6. ↑ In: Eduard Steinberg. Metaphysical painting between thaw and perestroika . 2005
  7. ↑ Donation documents the international status of the State Museum. Retrieved April 11, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Eduard Arkadjewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Штейнберг, Эдуард Аркадьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2012
Place of death Paris