Karl Ioganson

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Karl Ioganson, ca.1922
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Karl Ioganson ( Latvian Kārlis Johansons , Russian Карл Вольдемарович Иогансон ) (born January 16, 1890 in Cēsis , † October 18, 1929 in Moscow ) was a Latvian avant-garde artist.

Life

Ioganson attended the Municipal Art School in Riga in the 1910s and was a member of the Latvian artist group “Green Flower” (Zaļā puķe) from 1914 onwards. 1915-16 he attended the art school in Penza . In 1918 he lived in Moscow and worked in the artist workshop of the Latvian National Commissariat under the direction of Alexander Drewin, who was also a member of the group "Green Flowers". Ioganson lived again in Penza in 1919/20.

In autumn 1920 he joined the INChUK (Institute for Artistic Culture) . He was a founding member of the "First Constructivist Working Group" at INChUK. From May 22nd to June 1921 he exhibited his constructions at the 2nd exhibition of the OBMOChU (Society of Young Artists) . In the same year he took part in the INChUK discussion “Analysis of construction and composition and their mutual delimitation”. He exhibited his works at the " First Russian Art Exhibition Berlin 1922 ".

Karl Ioganson. Mechanical structure . [VIII] 1921 (whereabouts unknown). Graphic illustration based on a photograph.

In 1923 or 1924 to 1926 Ioganson was appointed the organizer of the "Red Rolling Workers" works (Красный прокатчик). He did not work there as a technician, but as an “inventor” of design methods that he wanted to transfer from constructions to industrial products. In Maria Gough's opinion, Ioganson proved that it was possible to overcome the contradiction between art and industrial production.

Ioganson commented on his work: "From painting to sculpture, from sculpture to construction, from construction to technology and invention - this is my chosen path, and will surely be the ultimate goal of every revolutionary artist" (translated: From painting to sculpture, from sculpture to architecture, from architecture to technology and invention - that is my chosen path, and it will surely become the ultimate goal of every revolutionary artist).

His "self-stabilizing constructions" are considered prototypes of the Tensegrity construction systems developed by Richard Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson in the 1950s .

Works

Maria Gough identified a total of nine sculptures made by Ioganson in the photos of the OBMOChU exhibition in 1921, which she numbered I – IX. Not a single one of Ioganson's sculptures has survived. There are also some graphic sheets, four of them in the former Costakis collection in the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki .

Fonts

  • Karl Ioganson: From Construction to Technology and Invention . In: Art into Life. Russian Constructivism 1914-1932 . Rizzoli, New York 1990, pp. 70 .

Web links

literature

  • Maria Gough: The Artist as Producer: Russian Constructivism in Revolution . University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 0-520-22618-6 .
  • Vyacheslav R. Kolejchuk: Karl Joganson, an inventor . In: The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932 . Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 160-161 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vyacheslav R. Kolejtschuk: Karl Joganson, an inventor . In: The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932 . Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 160-161 .
  2. ↑ according to the numbering by Maria Gough.
  3. ^ A b Hubert Gassner: Constructivists. Modernity on the way to modernization . In: The great utopia. The Russian avant-garde 1915–1932 . Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 139 .
  4. ^ Tony Robbin: A New Architecture . Yale University Press, Yale 1996.
  5. ↑ Αναζήτηση: [εμφάνιση όλων]. Retrieved June 17, 2017 (Greek).
personal data
SURNAME Ioganson, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johansons, Kārlis (LVS); Иогансон, Карл Вольдемарович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian avant-garde artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Cēsis
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1929
Place of death Moscow