Ivan Albertovich Puni

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Iwan Albertowitsch Puni ( Russian Иван (Жан) Альбертович Пуни , scientific transliteration Ivan (Žan) Al'bertovič Puni ; * 20 February July / 3 March  1892 greg. In Kuokkala (today Repino ); † December 28, 1956 in Paris ; also Ivan Puni or Jean Pougny ) was a Russian painter who belonged to the Russian avant-garde and was a representative of Futurism .

life and work

Puni's family had Italian roots. Iwan Puni was the grandson of the Italian composer Cesare Pugni .

After a short artistic training, including at the Académie Julian in Paris, Puni returned to Petersburg in 1912/1913 . Together with the painter and set designer Xenia Boguslawskaja , with whom he had been married since 1913, he organized the two main exhibitions of the Russian avant-garde "Tramway W" and the last futuristic exhibition " 0.10 " in 1915. The latter represented the breakthrough non-representational painting. At this exhibition Kasimir Malewitsch showed his suprematist painting “The Black Square”, which is one of the main works of this art direction. Parallel to this exhibition, Puni, Boguslawskaja, Malewitsch and Iwan Wassiljewitsch Kljun wrote the “Manifesto about the zero point of painting”. After the Russian Revolution he taught in 1919 a. a. at the Art School in Vitebsk under the direction of Marc Chagall .

From 1920 Puni lived in Berlin , where he actively participated in the art life of the avant-garde. In 1921 he had a solo exhibition in Herwarth Walden's gallery “ Der Sturm ”. He transformed the gallery into a total work of art and let sandwich men in cubist clothes walk on the Kurfürstendamm.

At the great First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1922 , the "Synthetic Musician" was shown as one of his most famous works in the November Group department. Some of his pictures, which combined cubist and realistic elements and made the transition to the non-representational art of Suprematism, are an integral part of the European avant-garde of the 20th century. It was important to him to create “form through color and its modulation”.

In 1924 Puni finally emigrated to Paris, where he had already studied in 1910/11. There he took the name Jean Pougny and received French citizenship in 1946. Puni died in Paris in 1956.

  • Portrait of his wife (1914)

  • Study for sculpture in relief (1916)

  • Relief (1915-16)

literature

  • Berlinische Galerie, Museum Pedagogical Service Berlin (Ed.): Iwan Puni. Synthetic musician. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-438-6 .
  • Herman Berninger: Pougny. Jean Pougny (Iwan Puni) 1892-1956. Catalog de l'Œuvre. E. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-80303-000-5 .
  • Magdalena Nieslony: The conditionality of painting. Ivan Puni and modern visual criticism. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7861-2764-2 .

Web links

Commons : Ivan Puni  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivan Albertovich Puni. Encyclopædia Britannica (English).
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Riese: Become a stranger. From the avant-garde to the underground. Texts on Russian Art 1968-2006 . Wienand, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-017-6 , p. 77
personal data
SURNAME Puni, Ivan Albertovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пуни, Иван Альбертович (Russian); Puni, Ivan; Pougny, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuokkala (now Repino )
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1956
Place of death Paris