Ilya Grigoryevich Chashnik

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Ilya Chashnik, 1923

Ilya Chashnik ( Russian Илья Григорьевич Чашник , scientific transliteration. Il'ja Grigor'jevič Casnik ; born June 12 . Jul / 25. June  1902 greg. In Ljuzin , Russian Empire ; † 4. March 1929 in Leningrad ) was a Russian Artist of the Russian avant-garde , who mainly transferred the basic ideas of Suprematism into applied art.

life and work

Chashnik was born in Latvia, but his family later moved to Vitebsk , where he received lessons from Yehuda Pen .

In 1919 he went to Moscow to study at the Free State Art Workshops, but returned to Vitebsk in the summer of 1919 , and from 1919 studied at the Vitebsk art school. His teachers were initially Marc Chagall and later Kasimir Malewitsch and El Lissitzky .

He was a supporter of Malevich and, with Nikolai Suetin , Lasar Chidekel and others, co-founded the artist group UNOWIS in early 1920 . In 1920 he founded the magazine Aero with Lasar Chidekel , an issue of which was published.

He followed Malevich in 1922 to Petrograd, and was there from 1923–1926 his research assistant at the Museum of Artistic Culture, the predecessor of GINChUK . After the dissolution of the GINChUK he worked in an architectural office of Alexander Nikolski .

From 1922 on, Tschaschnik designed porcelain for the Lomonossow porcelain factory in Leningrad on the basis of the Suprematist ideas , where Nikolai Suetin also worked. In 1925 he exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris and in 1928 at the Pressa in Cologne . From 1927 he was head of the ISORAM workshops in Leningrad.

Chashnik died in 1929 after an operation of appendicitis .

His son was the architect Ilya I. Tschaschnik (1929–1977), who was married to the architect Nina Suetina , the daughter of Sarra Abramovna Kamenetskaya (1916–1942) and Nikolai Suetin.

Picture gallery

  • Suprematic composition

  • Suprematic Composition , oil on canvas, 1920, MT Abraham Foundation

  • Suprematic Composition , 1923

literature

Catalogs
  • Trends of the Twenties. 15th European Art Exhibition Berlin 1977. (Catalog) Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-49601000-2 , cat. 1 / 661–662, 1/935, p. B / 67.
  • Ilya G. Tschaschnik (1902 Ljucite - 1929 Leningrad). Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf 1978. (Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, May 10, 1978 - July 2, 1978; Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Berlin July 21, 1978 - September 4, 1978. Catalog: Stephan von Wiese).
  • Suprematism: Works by Kasimir S. Malewitsch, Nikolaj M. Suetin, Ilja G. Tschaschnik from the Lew Nussberg archive, Orange, USA. Exhibition from May 30th to September 10th 1989. Galerie & Edition Schlégl, Zurich 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (ed.): The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932 . Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 776 .
  2. ↑ Nikolai Suetin: 1897-1954. The State Russian Museum. Palace Editions, [Bad Breisig]; RA, [Moscow] 2008, ISBN 978-3-940761-00-2 , p. 12

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personal data
SURNAME Tschashnik, Ilya Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чашник, Илья Григорьевич (Russian); Čašnik, Il'ja Grigor'jevič (scientific transliteration); Chashnik, Ilya Grigorevich (English transcription); Tschaschnik, Ilja G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian artist of Suprematism
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyuzin , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1929
Place of death Leningrad