Hylea Group

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The Hyläa Group (also Hylæa and Gileja ; Russian Гилея ) is an artist group that was founded by the painters Dawid and Vladimir Burljuk and the then art student Vladimir Mayakovsky around 1910. The location of the Majatschka estate near Chernyanka in the Kherson Governorate , where the group met, gave it its name. It was located in the Sarmatian forest area as one of the Scythian settlement areas , which Herodotus mentioned under the name Hylaia (from the Greek hýlē for forest ).

After Wassili Kamenski , Alexei Krutschonych , Jelena Guro , Benedikt Liwschiz and Velimir Chlebnikow joined the Hyläa, the avant-garde group of Cubofuturists developed . They distanced themselves from Italian futurism and propagated a departure from the transformative and civilizing influences of Europe. Instead, they were enthusiastic about the archaic orientalism and primitivism of Scythia. The "one and a half-eyed" Scythian warrior - with a half-shut eye - became her symbolic figure. The return to the folkloric tradition of their homeland is considered an essential element of the Russian futurists. A slap in the face of public taste ( Пощечина общественному вкусу ) is her manifesto, published in 1912 .

Filippo Marinetti , founder of Italian futurism, said after visiting Russia in 1914 that it was the land of futurism, full of power and potential. He described the Russian futurists as sauvagists from the French "sauvage" - the wild, the primeval man.

  • Caption: Futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky Elektro-Velografija, Kazan, Voskresenskaya

  • Caption: Futurist David Burljuk

  • Creation Volume 1. 1906–1908. With contributions to the work of Chlebnikov, Kamensky and Burljuk

literature

  • Kiblickij, Iozef (ed.): Futurism in Russia and David Burliuk, “Father of Russian Futurism”: Catalog for the exhibition “Russian Futurism”, September 17 to November 26, 2000, Von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal / Staatliches Russisches Museum . Palace Editions, [Wetzlar] 2000, ISBN 3-930775-91-3 .
  • Markov, Vladimir (ed.): The manifestos and program documents of the Russian futurists . Munich 1967 In: Slavic Propylaea. Texts in reprints and reprints. Volume 27
  • The modern . In: Klaus Städtke (ed.): Russian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-476-01540-8 , pp. 226-289 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Adrian Wanner: Miniature Worlds - Russian prose poems from Turgenev to Charms; Chapter: Short biographies and notes (bilingual anthology) . Pano Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-907576-73-X , p. 212 f .
  2. ↑ Selected Poems with Postscript, 1907–1914 . 1914. Retrieved September 28, 2013.