Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Matjuschin
Michael Wassiljewitsch Matjuschin ( Russian Михаил Васильевич Матюшин ; * 1861 in Nizhny Novgorod , † October 14, 1934 in Leningrad ) was a Russian painter and composer who belonged to the Russian avant-garde .
From 1876 to 1881 he received training at the Moscow Conservatory and from 1882 to 1913 he worked as a violinist in the Saint Petersburg Court Orchestra . At the same time he studied art together with his partner Jelena Genrichowna Guro at a private art school and during this time he painted a series of landscape paintings.
As a co-founder of the League of Youth , he and Jelena Guro formed the center of the avant-garde in St. Petersburg from 1910; he developed his ideas in close cooperation with Nikolai Kulbin , Pawel Filonow and Kasimir Malewitsch .
Matyushin was one of the founders of futurism in art. He had a lifelong friendship with Malevich; In 1913, together with two other artists, they designed the opera “Victory over the Sun” , for which Malevich created the set that inspired him to develop Suprematism . Matyushin wrote the music for the opera, the poet Velimir Khlebnikov the prologue.
From 1921 to 1923 he worked at the Museum for Artistic Culture, whose "Department for Scientific Research into Organic Art" he headed from 1923, and was a member of the museum's board of directors. He retained this position when the institute was converted into GINChUK , "State Institute for Artistic Culture" in 1924 .
1929–1932 he worked with his students on the creation of a handbook for color studies: "Lawfulness of the change of color combinations: reference work for colors", which was published in 1932 in 400 copies.
His “Theory of Extended Vision” was an attempt to create a countercurrent within the avant-garde. The poet Khlebnikov writes in the futuristic anthology Die Drei :
“In the age of urbanization in art, the poetization of factories and works, when the machine separates man from nature, Guro and Matjuschin turn to saving nature. They try to understand the latent nature of natural phenomena, the shape of the organic structures, the general movement in space and the nature of the planetary connections. "
literature
- Isabel Wünsche: Art & Life: Michail Matjuschin and the Russian Avant-garde in St. Petersburg. 1st edition. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20730-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Michail Wassiljewitsch Matjuschin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about the artist and his works (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 100.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matyushin, Mikhail Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Матюшин, Михаил Васильевич (Russian); Matyushin, Mikhail Vasil'yevich (English) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter and composer of the avant-garde |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nizhny Novgorod |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1934 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |