Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin

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Nikolai Kulbin (unknown photographer, 1909)
Nikolai Kulbin

Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin ( Russian: Николай Иванович Кульбин ; * 1868 in Helsinki  , † 1917 in Petrograd ) was a Russian military doctor, painter, graphic artist, art theorist , music theorist and patron of Russian futurism.

Life

Kulbin grew up in St. Petersburg, where he studied medicine at the Medical Military Academy from 1887 , graduating in 1893 and graduating in 1895 on alcoholism . He became a general practitioner and professor at the Petersburg Military Academy and had various medical publications. He came to drawing and photography through microscopy .

Since 1908 he took part in art exhibitions. In 1910 he organized the exhibition "Treugolnik" (Triangle), in which his friend David Burljuk exhibited, among others . He was associated with the Hylea group that gave birth to Cubo-Futurism . In 1912 he took part in the exhibition of the group of boys of diamonds . In 1912 he was a set designer at the theater in Terijoki and from 1913–1914 at the Queen of Spades Theater.

In 1912, at the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, he published the contribution "Free Music" for the almanac Der Blaue Reiter . He had already proclaimed his basic ideas in St. Petersburg in 1908 and published them in 1910 in the anthology Studio der Impressionisten (Russian), which he edited and which the Almanac took over. In the short article he outlined theses on the liberation of music, which he had already developed with Arthur Lourié at this time, and named the “quarter and eighth notes” as a new element , which were also used in ancient Hindu music, for example .

As a painter he took in 1913 at the First German Autumn Salon in the Berlin gallery "Der Sturm" by Herwarth Walden part. There he showed “The Madonna of Putywyl” and “The Disput”, the latter drawing was also shown in the exhibition catalog.

Marinetti visited Moscow and St. Petersburg from January 26 to February 15, 1914 to meet the Russian futurists there; Kulbin organized the lecture tour. A few Russian futurists, who felt patronized by Marinetti, polemicized against Marinetti in Moscow together with Benedikt Livshits , and Velimir Chlebnikov , who fell out with Kulbin because of this criticism, subsequently left the Hylea group. Kulbin was now considered a “moderate European” by the “radical Asians” (slogan: “We and the Occident”) among the Russian futurists.

At the futurist exhibition in Rome, which took place from April 4 to May 30, 1914 under the direction of Guido Sprovieri in the “Galleria Futurista” in Via del Tritone 125, three other Russians were represented in addition to “Nicola I. Koulbine”: Alexandra Exter , Alexander Archipenko and Olga V. Rosanoff . Kulbin showed two objects: "Donna + sole = interferenza" and "Ritratto di FT Marinetti (Interferenze)".

Works

  • Studiya impressionistov , 1910 (ed.)
  • Free music , in: Kandinsky / Franz Marc: Der Blaue Reiter , Piper, Munich 1912. New documentary edition by Klaus Lankheit (1965). Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-492-24121-2
  • Albert Kivikas translated Nikolai Kulbin's Cubism from Russian into Estonian. Kirjastus Arlekiin, Tartu 1920

drawings

Portrait drawings by Kulbin:

literature

  • Esposizione libera futurista internazionale. Pittori e scultori italiani, russi, inglesi, belgi, north americani. Aprile-maggio 1914. Guido Sprovieri Galleria Futurista Roma, Rome 1914.
  • Christiane Bauermeister (ed.), Victory over the sun, aspects of Russian art at the beginning of the 20th century. Exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Berliner Festwochen from September 1 to October 9, 1983. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1983 (with photos by Kulbin on pages 14 and 21).
  • Jeremy Howard: The Union of Youth: an artists' society of the Russian avant-garde. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1992, ISBN 0-7190-3731-X .
  • Yevgeny F. Kovtun: Sangesi: the Russian avant-garde. Khlebnikov and his painters. Ed. Stemmle, Kilchberg 1993, ISBN 3-905514-10-9 .

Web links

Commons : Nikolai Kulbin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the curriculum vitae according to Jeremy Howard, The Union of Youth, p. 226. St. Petersburg is otherwise named as the place of birth. Howard and Bauermeister name 1917 as the year of death; Klaus Lankheit names 1941 as the year of his death and cites verbal communications from Dmitrij Tschižewskij ( Der Blaue Reiter , p. 333). According to Viktor Shklowski, who knew Kulbin well, he died '... three days after the February Revolution ...', d. H. in March 1917, see Shklovsky. Witness to an Era, Dalkey Archive Press 2012, p. 65
  2. ^ Anna Lawton ( Memento October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Jessica Horsley: The Almanac of the "Blue Rider" as a total work of art. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006 p. 390; Pp. 207-223. Who translated the text for the Blue Rider into German is unclear.
  4. ↑ Catalog # 243 and 244. First German Autumn Salon: Berlin 1913 / Head: Herwarth Walden , Nachdr. [D. Ed.], Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, ISBN 3-88375-082-4 dnb
  5. ↑ or St. Petersburg see: Margarita Tupitsyn , Collaborating on the Paradigm of the Future, Art Journal, Vol. 52, No. 4, Interactions between Artists and Writers (Winter, 1993), pp. 18-24 JSTOR 777620
  6. ↑ Illustrations in Bauermeister, pp. 117, 232, 238, 250
personal data
SURNAME Kulbin, Nikolai Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кульбин, Николай Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH 1917
Place of death Petrograd