Jelena Genrichowna Guro

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Jelena Guro, self-portrait (1909)
Jelena Guro, Portrait Matjuschin (1910).

Elena Guro ( Russian Елена Генриховна Гуро ; and Eleonora touch Berg ) (born May 18 . Jul / thirtieth May  1877 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † April 23 jul. / 6. May  1913 greg. In Uusikirkko , Grand Duchy of Finland ) was a Russian painter , book illustrator and author .

life and work

Together with her partner and future husband Mikhail Matjuschin , she attended the private art school of Jelisaveta Swanzewa (1864–1922) in St. Petersburg in 1906 . She joined a group of impressionists around Nikolai Kulbin in 1909 and 1910 and exhibited with him.

Jelena Guro was an all-round talent. She was a respected, influential poet, and in her painting her contemporaries, as Matyushin wrote in his memoirs, regarded her as the “conscience of cubofuturism ”. She had a very close relationship with nature, and so tried to temporarily implement essential and structural features of nature in her artistic expression. She was particularly fond of the dune landscape on the Finnish coast north of St. Petersburg, where she owned a summer house .

Guro died of tuberculosis .

Works

  • Elena Guro: songs of the city. Prose and drawings , from the Russ. and with a preface by Peter Urban , Berlin: Friedenauer Presse 2003 ISBN 3-932109-33-3
  • Drawings by Russian poets / Elena Guro ... , first, second. selected and ed. by Jutta Hercher and Peter Urban, Hamburg: Material-Verl. 1998 ISBN 3-932395-03-4
  • Organ organ , 1909 (Russian)
  • Autumn Dream , 1912 (Russian)
  • Heavenly Camel Foals , 1914 (posthumous, Russian)

literature

  • speaking of Jelena Guro . With an essay by Eva Hausbacher and numerous pictures, Verlag Neue Critique, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, ISBN 978-3-8015-0310-9 .
  • Vera Claudia Patoka-Meyer: Intermediality and subjectivity in the work of Elena Guro (1877-1913) . Dissertation No. 4297 from the University of St. Gallen , 2014.

Web links

Commons : Elena Guro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Riese: Saved nature, planetary synthesis. In: From the avant-garde to the underground. Texts on Russian art 1968–2006 . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-017-6 . P. 98 f.
  2. ^ A b 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. 209 f .
personal data
SURNAME Guro, Jelena Genrichowna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гуро, Елена Генриховна (Russian); Notenberg, Eleonora; Guro, Elena Genrichovna; Goureau, Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter, book illustrator and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1913
Place of death Uusikirkko , Grand Duchy of Finland